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The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.
However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.
A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.
Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
I think being able to speak different languages, and being able to act in those languages is something that's really very rewarding.
It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.
Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.
I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.
Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.