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... →
George Stigler
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating... →
Stephen Stills
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
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection... →
Tom Stoppard
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be... →
John Strachan
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... →
Lytton Strachey
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in... →
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael Straczynski