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Quotations regarding 'Language'

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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.
Juan Williams, American Journalist (1954-  )
What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
Richard Wilson, British Actor (1936-  )
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist (1959-  )
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist (1959-  )
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist (1934-  )
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist (1934-  )
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia Woolf, British Author (1882-1941)
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Steve Wozniak, American Businessman (1950-  )
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
Judith Wright, Australian Poet (1915-2000)
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet (1865-1939)
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director (1950-  )
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Thom Yorke, English Musician (1968-  )
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Thom Yorke, English Musician (1968-  )
 
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