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We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.
Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.
If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.
I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.
Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
I hope America does not accept the kind of language that Donald Trump is using to describe our fellow Americans.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.
I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.
When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.