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If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.
Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!
We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.
Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.
Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.