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Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!
I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.
My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.