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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.
When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.
Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.
That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.
Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.