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
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn
I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations
Lana Wood
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
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it (Thunder on the Left)
Christopher Morley
But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
Boris Johnson
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra Pound
The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell Jameson
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Dorothy L Sayers
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language
Oscar Wilde
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J Michael Straczynski
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael Howard
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
Neale Walsch
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
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
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Two million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid Diamond
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
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
Our thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming language.
John Backus
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language
James Earl Jones
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
Jay Leno
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
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