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 ColePhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein'Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English
George Bernard ShawLanguage is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphrey DavyEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James BaldwinGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra PoundIf the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John Hume[on understanding] The definition is this: to understand something is to know what it means, to know what its significance is. To understand a sentence is to know what it means, to understand a language is to know what its words and sentences mean, to understand a phenomenon more generally is to know its significance.
Tim CraneThe 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 ZappaThe 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 SayersA mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone WeilEven if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.
Stephen HarperI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinIt is not enough for language to have clarity and content: it must also have a goal and an imperative.
Rene DaumalSlang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl SandburgI came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Dick SchaapFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
Neale WalschBad language is the only thing we have in common with the Osbournes.
Francis FulfordThe quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J Michael StraczynskiTwo million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid DiamondBut 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 JohnsonSnogging is the universal language of the world
Mark FeehilyNinety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget (on Dennis Wise)
Gianfranco ZolaWe call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph RouxLife is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it (Thunder on the Left)
Christopher MorleyReal programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry WallI do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
Sir Edward Appleton Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
Roman JakobsonViewed 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 WhitmanDreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
Gail GodwinWhat language are you talking in now? It appears to be Bollocks.
Richard WilsonWhen one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John DonneNothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash (The Language of Art)
Walter SickertI wonder what language truck drivers are using,
now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl PfizerLanguage is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
Kelly FordyceAccuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell JamesonLanguage is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-StraussOur 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 BackusEvery major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire BellocTo have another language is to possess a second soul.
CharlemagneIn language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned. (Maxims, 1830)
Richard DuppaTwo nations divided by a common language.
Winston ChurchillI 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 WoodThere is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Elias CanettiA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William HazlittThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig WittgensteinPoetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T S EliotThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesI believe that there is a devil. Those who disagree with me in this may translate my language. All I ask is that they admit the vital truth on which I insist.
Anthony ComstockLanguage has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
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