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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Quotes by Billy Sunday

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

Quotes by Billy Collins

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

Quotes by Billy Collins

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

Quotes by Bill Hicks

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.

Quotes by Bill Engvall

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Quotes by Bill Griffith

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Quotes by Bernard Pivot

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

Quotes by Bernard Pivot

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Quotes by Bernard Pivot

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

Quotes by Bernard Pivot

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Quotes by Bernard Pivot

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

Quotes by Bernardo Bertolucci

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

Quotes by Bernard Goldberg

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Quotes by Bernard Malamud

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Quotes by Benjamin Whorf

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Quotes by Benjamin Whorf

Finality is not the language of politics.

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Quotes by Ben Schott

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Quotes by Ben Jonson

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Quotes by Ben Kingsley

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Quotes by Ben Marcus

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

Quotes by Bayard Taylor

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

Quotes by Bayard Taylor

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

Quotes by Bayard Taylor

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

Quotes by Bayard Taylor

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

Quotes by Bart Stupak

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

Quotes by Bart Stupak

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

Quotes by Bart Stupak

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

Quotes by Barry Ritholtz

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Quotes by Barbara Kruger

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

Quotes by Barbara Kruger

I've always been very tied to language.

Quotes by Barbara Kruger

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

Quotes by Barbara Kruger

When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.

Quotes by Bahman Ghobadi

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

Quotes by Bai Ling

Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.

Quotes by Balaji Srinivasan

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Quotes by Balthus

Gujarati is a very sweet language and I have always used elements from Gujarati songs in my music.

Quotes by Bappi Lahiri

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Quotes by Augustine Birrell

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

Quotes by Auguste Comte

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Quotes by Atom Egoyan

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Quotes by Aubrey Beardsley

We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.

Quotes by Ashley Jensen

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

Quotes by Arundhati Roy

I accept I use bad language, but I speak from the heart.

Quotes by Arvind Kejriwal

I lived in Paris for two years with my family. I would roam the streets of Paris during the day for a few hours in the subway, on the streets, and I listened to the French language, and I got a sense of the rhythm and the melody of the language.

Quotes by Asghar Farhadi

Only when you know the nuances of a language can you sing a song well.

Quotes by Asha Bhosle

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Quotes by Artur Davis

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Quotes by Arthur Koestler

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Quotes by Art Spiegelman

Tollywood has a special place in my heart because Telugu is my mother tongue, and when I sing in the language, my mom feels really happy.

Quotes by Armaan Malik

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Quotes by Armando Iannucci

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Aristotle

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Aristotle

It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.

Quotes by Ari Melber

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Quotes by Aravind Adiga

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

Quotes by Arca

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Quotes by Anurag Kashyap

Music is common language. I can sing ‘Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

Quotes by apl.de.ap

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

Quotes by Anton Corbijn

I love body language.

Quotes by Anton Corbijn

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Quotes by Antonin Artaud

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

Quotes by Antonio Banderas

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Quotes by Antonio Banderas

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier

Scott Walker is going to tell people the truth - not with bombastic and self-congratulatory language, but in that endearing Midwestern way.

Quotes by Anthony Scaramucci

The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her use of language becomes careless.

Quotes by Anthony Doerr

Whether Trump knew it or not, his strong language tapped into evangelical beliefs about the 'last days' and America's role in biblical prophecy.

Quotes by Anthea Butler

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

Quotes by Anne Michaels

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.

Quotes by Anne Carson

People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.

Quotes by Anna Soubry

One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.

Quotes by Annaleigh Ashford

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Quotes by Anna Jameson

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

Quotes by Ann Demeulemeester

It was when I was shooting for a Telugu film in Hyderabad when director Meher Ramesh approached me for 'Veera Kannadiga.' I was game to explore a new language and said yes.

Quotes by Anita Hassanandani Reddy

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Quotes by Anita Shreve

Singing in a different language is a challenge, but 'Will I See You' was so much fun to create.

Quotes by Anitta

People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.

Quotes by Anitta

Music has no language. That's something I've come to believe in even more ever since 'Kolaveri Di' happened. I don't deliberately make separate Tamil, Hindi, or Telugu tracks.

Quotes by Anirudh Ravichander

It's good to see your songs breaking the barriers of language.

Quotes by Anirudh Ravichander

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Quotes by Anish Kapoor

People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and we need to speak the language.

Quotes by Angela Ahrendts

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

Quotes by Angela Ahrendts

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.

Quotes by Andy Summers

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

Quotes by Andrzej Wajda

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Quotes by Andrzej Wajda

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Quotes by Andrzej Wajda

Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.

Quotes by Andris Nelsons

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

Quotes by Andrew Scheer

When we automated away the elevator operator function, who knew that all the descendants of those operators would become social media marketers, machine learning engineers, and all these other jobs that we didn't even have a language to describe back then.

Quotes by Andrew Ng

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

Quotes by Andrew Coyle Bradley

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

Quotes by Andrei Codrescu

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Quotes by Andrea Dworkin

I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.

Quotes by Andrea Mackris

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

Quotes by Andrea Navedo

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

Quotes by Anderson Cooper

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

Quotes by Andie MacDowell

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Quotes by Anatoly Chubais

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

Quotes by Anders Hejlsberg

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