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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.
It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.
You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.
Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.
Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
All German women are beautiful. It's not for nothing that we talk of the German "Fräuleinwunder." You don't get this word in any other language.
I started a company in 2005 for language services called Blue Elephant. We handle translation and interpretation services in over 120 languages.
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.