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“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.”

Ifs Want Feels Language Wish Water Sea Perfection Lions Founders Monkeys Spiders Seals Slipping

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.”

Book Whole Jobs Language Morality Pure Bible Perfection Regard Simplicity Noble Scripture Comparison Exceed Sublimity

Author:Alexander Pope

“In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.”

Matter America Courses Language Rich Food Garden Perfection Cooking Meat Culinary Farms Vegetables Chef Potatoes Juice Nests Menus Vienna Hearty Slabs

Author:Laurie Lee

“The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.”

People Important Book Passion Winning Language Principles Failing Perfection Persistence Persuasion Adjectives Prioritization

Author:Frank Luntz

“What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.”

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Author:Colum McCann

“Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.”

Ifs Matter Use Names Language Difficult Church Perfect Lord Our Lives Habit Members Mouths Perfection Vain Curse Reverence Locks Routes Avoiding Foul Swearing Cursing Foul Language

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.”

Ifs World Certain Lost Speak Language Perfect Animal One Day Perfection Useless

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.”

Language Mistake Perfection Programming Languages

Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

“Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.”

Life Spirit Language Journey Higher Perfection Simplicity Lifts Cheer Sincerity Pathways

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.”

Source: Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848

“On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.”

“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.”

Past Language Mistake Generations Perfection Technique Programming New Generation Programming Languages

Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective