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I have a good ear for languages.


Harry Dean Stanton


#good #i #languages

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.


George Stigler


#citizens #discuss #economist #fellow #fellow citizens

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.


Sting


#eats #form #i #i see #language

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.


John Strachan


#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.


Lytton Strachey


#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.


Lytton Strachey


#came #civilization #evolved #existence #french

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.


Mark Strand


#first #language #last #poetry #rest

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.


Peter Frederick Strawson


#exact #expression #give #language #logic

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.


Andy Summers


#cover #discuss #frustrating #gets #ground

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.


Gael Garcia Bernal


#around #bit #end #english #favor






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