Language Quotes
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Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
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There were seven men, but just one language. They also moved as one and ate one meal a day and slept in the same bed and knew the same women with whom they'd made the same child. They worked for the same firm as the father. They were the future.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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Music is a language.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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Lindemann is cleverly playing with language, rhyme and meter to generate insight in ways that only the best poets really can.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
