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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

The only love language is 'die to self.'

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.