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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Quotes by Abraham Maslow

In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

Quotes by Abigail Washburn

I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.

Quotes by Abhimanyu Singh

I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.

Quotes by Abhimanyu Singh

Like Quotes

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.

Quotes by Aaron Schock

A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

Quotes by Aaron Diehl

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

Love Quotes

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

Quotes by A. R. Rahman

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Quotes by A. E. Waite

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Quotes by A. E. van Vogt

I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Quotes by Zoe Wanamaker

Me Quotes

English is not my first language.

Quotes by Zhu Zhu

The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt, and I also want it to be a project that...

Quotes by Zoe Bell

I must stick with Chinese language films.

Quotes by Zhang Yimou

If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to...

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps...

Quotes by Zhang Ziyi

More Quotes

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Quotes by Zedd

I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

Quotes by Zendaya

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local...

Quotes by Yuri Milner

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the...

Quotes by Yusef Komunyakaa

Music Quotes

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up...

Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto

Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working...

Quotes by Yuliya Snigir

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.

Quotes by Yitzhak Navon

People Quotes

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is...

Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

Quotes by Yasmine Hamdan

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

Quotes by Yasmine Hamdan

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Quotes by Yann Martel

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Quotes by Yael Naim

Speak Quotes

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Quotes by Yakov Smirnoff

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

Quotes by Win Butler

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.

Language is a virus from outer space.

Quotes by William S. Burroughs

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Quotes by William Osler

Think Quotes

I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother...

Quotes by William Lloyd Garrison

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

Quotes by William Labov

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

Quotes by William Irwin Thompson

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

Quotes by William H. Hunt

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Quotes by William Gibson

Way Quotes

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

Quotes by William Golding

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

Quotes by William Clay Ford, Jr.

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

Quotes by William Bennett

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine

Language is a social art.

Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine

Words Quotes

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Quotes by Werner Heisenberg

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Quotes by Wen Jiabao

I feel that art is beyond language.

Quotes by Wangechi Mutu

World Quotes

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

Quotes by Walter Kirn

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Quotes by Walter Lang

Dancing doesn't have a language.

Quotes by Walshy Fire

Viewed 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 Whitman

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

You Quotes

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Quotes by Vladimir Kramnik

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

Quotes by Vladimir Kramnik

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Quotes by Vitruvius

Bitcoin is great as a form of digital money, but its scripting language is too weak for any kind of serious advanced applications to be built on top.

Quotes by Vitalik Buterin

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.

Quotes by Vinnie Jones

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

Quotes by Vikram Patel

I prefer working with new talent irrespective of whether they know the language or not. At the same time, I have been keen on taking female leads, who know Tamil quite well.

Quotes by Vijay Antony

Post-'Pellichoopulu,' I received a lot of offers from Tamil industry. I decided I won't do a Tamil film unless I know the language. If I want to do it, I wanted to do it perfectly.

Quotes by Vijay Deverakonda

When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

Quotes by Victor Moses

Language is no barrier. I watch Telugu movies, and I really enjoy them.

Quotes by Varun Dhawan

My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.

Quotes by Vangelis

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

Quotes by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'

Quotes by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

Quotes by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Quotes by Uzodinma Iweala

Yes, if something good is offered in any language, I will do it.

Quotes by Vaani Kapoor

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.

Quotes by Ursula Dubosarsky

There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

Quotes by Ursula Dubosarsky

What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

Quotes by Ursula Dubosarsky

Gujaratis are really cute people, and I find Gujarati to be a very sweet language.

Quotes by Urvashi Rautela

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Quotes by Umberto Eco

When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself.

Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.

Quotes by Trey Gowdy

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Quotes by Toyo Ito

I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.

Quotes by Tracee Ellis Ross

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a...

Quotes by Toyin Odutola

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Quotes by Tony Harrison

I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.

Quotes by Tony Harrison

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Quotes by Toni Morrison

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Quotes by Tommy Lee Jones

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth...

Quotes by Tom Wlaschiha

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Quotes by Tomas Transtromer

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.

Quotes by Tom Verica

Without your data, Google couldn't pursue the dream of trying to figure out what you're really thinking when you're asking a question, of trying to discern, from the imprecision of your language, the exact answer you're looking for.

Quotes by Tom Junod

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

Quotes by Timothy West

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Quotes by Tina Ambani

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

Quotes by Tim Jackson

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Quotes by Tim Conway

Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.

Quotes by Tiger Shroff

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

Quotes by Thora Hird

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.

Quotes by Thomas More

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