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“I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.”

Believe Language I Believe Levels Highest Capable Prose Lifting Primacy

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.”

Believe Age Language I Believe Ability Development Ability To See Categorization Conceptualization

Author:Chris Ware

“I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.”

Feels Believe I Can Speak Language Dialogue Because I Can

Author:Chita Rivera

“Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.”

Want Believe Done Language Can Do Knowing

Author:Denis Donoghue

“I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.”

World Years Believe Kind Different Language I Believe Brain Millions Musical Etc Different Kinds Spatial Multiple Intelligences

Author:Howard Gardner

“The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in the Arabian tale, they succeeded in snatching a memorial from every shrine they visited.”

Source: A Voyage Round the World: Volume I, Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832

“Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.”

People Should Firsts Believe Language I Believe Class Sun Should Have Marketing First Class Java

Author:Alan Kay

“Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.”

Believe May Matter Political Language Force I Believe Mistake Accepting Particular Speech Judgment Favors Doctrine Censorship Sexist Labeling Sociological Desirability

Author:Neil Postman

“When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.”

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Book:Borderliners: A Novel

Source: Borderliners: A Novel