Language Quotes
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Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.
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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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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.
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And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message coming clear Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream?
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I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
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You can’t translate something that was never in a language in the first place.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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How do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!
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I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
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The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
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It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
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When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.
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Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.
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Suffering belongs to no language.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
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I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
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The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
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In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence
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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
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All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
