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Language Quotes
"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
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"Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
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"Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?"
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"Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man."
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"Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting."
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"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."
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"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"
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"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition."
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"Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate."
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"Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."
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"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."
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"The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs."
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"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
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"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal."
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"If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person."
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"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
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"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."
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"Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used."
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"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
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"I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next."
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"Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously."
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"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
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"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."
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"The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down."
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"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
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"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
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"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."
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