George W. Crane Quotes
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.
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The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
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To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
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Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
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Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
