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Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.
I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.
A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.
Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.