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I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we were younger, we did not even speak the same language.

Speak Language Go Never Same Out

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.

Love Heart Myself Language Questions

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

Me Reading Think Language Rules

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Elizabeth Bowen

Thought Language Difficulties Outcome

Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.

Music Heart Best Me Song Language

Every language has its own music.

Music Language Own Every

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Language Will Rational Laws General

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Light Job Colors Speak Language Out

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Think Language Questions Human Ask

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.

Love Language English Language Bears

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.

John O. Brennan

Think Language Trying Why Project

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

Parminder Nagra

Great People Me Language Laugh Down

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates

Memory Language Blood Without Linked

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Thornton Wilder

Future Winning Language Exploration

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Work Words Joy Language Enjoy You

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Beauty Experience Words Language You

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Mind Prison Language Enclosed

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Work Language Hands Up Slang Goes

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.

Family Childhood School Language

The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.

Janet Evanovich

Attitude Language You Jersey Get

Language is the dress of thought.

Dress Thought Language

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

Freedom Great Language Camera Master

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

Patrick Collison

Time Myself Growing Up Language Back

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

Time Me Language Talking You May

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