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There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.
A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.
If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.