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The fixation of the theater in one language
written words, music, lights, noises
betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud

The shorter and the plainer the better. — Beatrix Potter

I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself. — Gabor Mate

The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought — Albert Einstein

His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language.
1Q84, Murakami — Haruki Murakami

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Clarence Nash

It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued. — Louise Penny

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

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe — Galileo Galilei

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. — David LaChapelle

To start speaking my language start reading what I read... start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. — Deyth Banger

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. — Jacques Derrida

A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand. — Jardine Libaire

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand De Saussure

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English. — Vikram Seth

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. — Bayard Taylor

Emacs is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. — Neal Stephenson

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. — Walker Evans

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. — Holmes Rolston III

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it. — Steven Pinker

There exists a single complete copy, is written in Annaren, the principal language spoken in Annar. In translating — Alison Croggon

Trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly. — Cassandra Clare

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear. — Frederick Lenz

This grimoire was written in the language of angels."
"Shouldn't that be,like, harp music or chanting, and not hard-core hieroglyphics? — Rachel Hawkins

It was written in the ancient RUNIX spell-language, and is read-only and can't be modified. — Jasper Fforde

Nature is written in mathematical language. — Galileo Galilei

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. — Robert Breault

It's like the man is an open book but whatever his story is just happens to be written in a different language. — J.M. Darhower

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language. — Marcel Proust

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. — Kenneth R. Miller

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. — Jimmy Breslin

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. — E. O. Wilson

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Clary looked at Jace closely, trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language that she'd studies all too briefly. — Cassandra Clare

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. — Franz Kafka

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language. — Pete Hamill

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. — Richard Brautigan

Lev Leokov was an open book. I only needed to discover the language in which his pages were written. — Belle Aurora

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful' - much more. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in. — Sam Kean

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. — Spencer Wells

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. — Tim Bedore

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read. — Brandon Sanderson

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word — Frank Bough

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. — William Hazlitt

The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically:
Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. — Spyridon Marinatos

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language. — M.B. Parkes