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Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.
I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.