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Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

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

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

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

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

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