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It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has
If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.
Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!
The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.
Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.
Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.
Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.
It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.
To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.
No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.