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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

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

I get along with all the women singers but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.

War is what happens when language fails.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

It is a sore point because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems because on bad days you don't trust yourself either in your first or your second language and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people it's an intimate medium of television and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

I hope to have more time to think to look at the sky dealing with less crisis management to learn another language to travel.

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 networks kind of have an edge.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages know countries know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

I wish life was not so short he thought. languages take such a time and so do all the things one wants to know about.

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.

As societies grow decadent the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise not to illuminate action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

When I started out as a music journalist at the end of the 1980s it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded beatbox disco soared indie rock took off and new wave invented a language of teen angst.