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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.
Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.