#lang

Language is froth on the surface of thought. ↗

— John McCarthy

#language #surface #thought

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. ↗

— Gates McFadden

#another #better #culture #just #language

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. ↗

— John McGahern

#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#english #english language #federalist #form #government

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. ↗

— James Merrill

#elements #find #forbidding #greek #helped

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. ↗

— Henry Miller

#any #bad #city #feeble #feeling

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language. ↗

— Moliere

#feed #good #i #language #soup

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. ↗

— Alan Moore

#conscious #consciousness #first #got #grows

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#ancient #authority #back #fact #form

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#clarity #comes #doing #good #honesty