Language Quotes
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
C. S. Lewis
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I speak the language of television.
Randy Falco
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
Daniel Alarcon
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
Aaron Diehl
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What got me really excited about Tylko is the fact that it bridges the gap between tradition and technology. It expands the designer's ability to create a language, to create ideas, to create a set of proportions, a set of details, and to apply those across a really wide range of applications.
Yves Behar
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Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
Edith Head
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
Edith Pearlman
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
Ada Lovelace
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Yao Ming
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
A. E. Waite
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
Barbara Kruger
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Bart Stupak
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
Eden Hazard
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
Natasha Trethewey
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For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
Becky Lynch