We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics! — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. — Philippe Sollers Copy Share Image
“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify… — Dean Israelite Copy Share Image
“Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“She walks to a table She walk to table She is walking to a table She walk to table now What difference… — Wang Ping Copy Share Image
Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating… — Harlan Lane Copy Share Image
What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it… — Patricia Birch Copy Share Image
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.” — David Kyuman Kim Copy Share Image
“Words there are aplenty for bickering and hate, whilst words of love come far too slow and often far too late.” — Neil George Copy Share Image
“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I… — Peter Ellis Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent,… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“Words are most important. I never wanted to write a song about nothing. After all, the impulse towards music is at its… — Kevan Duke Copy Share Image
I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
“Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words. — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden Copy Share Image
“The enigma of stuttering is profound. For in a moment, you would sound very fluent, and at other times, you would struggle… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Soccer is the international language. If you bring a soccer ball with you to any other country, you can make friends instantly. — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
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