Quotations
'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
Russell Crowe
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
Jay Leno
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
Samuel Johnson
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
Jaroslav Pelikan
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Where nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind
Edward Young
He attempts to use language which he does not know
Persius
At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
Rachel Weisz
Two million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid Diamond
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
Natalie Cole
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J G Ballard
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
Frank Zappa
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language
Werner Heisenberg
It is not enough for language to have clarity and content: it must also have a goal and an imperative.
Rene Daumal
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger
On Sylvester Stallone: 'You have this preconceived notion of him as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.'
Rachael Leigh Cook
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
Hippocrates
The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul Goodman
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John Hume
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
Jurgen Klinsmann
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.'
Ben Affleck
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard
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