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Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer  (Language Quotes) In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified  (Language Quotes) 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  (Language Quotes) Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language  (Language Quotes) The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life  (Language Quotes) I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents  (Language Quotes) 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  (Language Quotes) Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody’s head  (Language Quotes) Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence  (Language Quotes) All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature  (Language Quotes) I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn’t mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them  (Language Quotes) I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating  (Language Quotes) The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don’t you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don’t talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you  (Language Quotes) I’m bisexual, but it’s not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I’ve slept with girls; I’ve slept with guys, so I guess that’s what they call it! I’m not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives  (Language Quotes) Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy’s main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use  (Language Quotes) If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music  (Language Quotes) Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts  (Language Quotes) One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer  (Language Quotes) I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language  (Language Quotes) It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word  (Language Quotes) 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  (Language Quotes) He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits  (Language Quotes) Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans  (Language Quotes) I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it  (Language Quotes) To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children  (Language Quotes) In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth  (Language Quotes) There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else’s language  (Language Quotes) I’m trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through  (Language Quotes) Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things  (Language Quotes) My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another  (Language Quotes)
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