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We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.
As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.
Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.
It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.
No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.