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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations around translation, or even as two disassociated phenomena that can be brought together to collaborate with more or less success, I think of sound as sense. Sound has its own meaning, and it's one of the many non-semantic dimensions of meaning in language. I want to emphasize is the formal dynamic between language-as-information and language-as-art-material.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.