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If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!
Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.
That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."
For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.