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Franklin P. Jones

???... I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and t

William Faulkner

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Arthur Quinn

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

George Steiner

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Sir Edward Appleton

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

John A. Rassias

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.

Arthur Edwin Kennelly

through radio I look forward to a united states of the world. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its soc

Antonin Artaud

The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak. I say that this concrete language, intended for the senses and independent of speech, has first to satisfy the senses, that there is a poet

William John Bennett

Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

J??zsef Szombatfalvi

I firmly believe that there was an ancient language, the language of the melodies that make us all be understood. The melody of ancient times must resound in our souls so that we may have a human life. The ancient melody, the so many times forgotten melod

Max Heindel

Music is the soul of language.

Keith Bostic

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

Johann von Goethe

A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Buck Henry

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Rita Dove

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Jeremy Taylor

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

Jane Wagner

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Douglas Adams

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

Samuel Johnson

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

George Bernard Shaw

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Lily Tomlin

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Johann von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Susan Johnson

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.

Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Franklin P. Jones

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

J. Michael Straczynski

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Douglas Noel Adams

It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Samuel Johnson

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Larry Wall

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Mark Twain

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ Pt. i., St. 28.

Fit language there is none For the heart's deepest things.

John Moore

He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.

Kirk O'Donnell

Political theory provides a common language with which people in this town communicate with each other.

Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Muhammad Ali

Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.)

BRET HARTE: _Plain Language from Truthful James._

With the smile that was childlike and bland.

Anon.

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence wher

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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.

"C" combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.

As was his language so was his life.

Experience becomes possible because of language.

A 'language' is a dialect with an army.

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Make up a language and ask people for directions.

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

Math is the language God used to write the universe.

Man invented language to satisfy his need to complain.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

"A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

"Since I never write programs, every language looks equally bad;

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.