Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It’s become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Money has a language of its own.

I would say that I’m more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you’d see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Words are loaded pistols.

I was brought up to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Language is the dress of thought.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.