Language Quotes
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
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They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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Memewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.
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It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.
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I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our songs. When we use the spiritual Meronian language, the word 'international' doesn't do justice to our band. This kind of psychic language's means of communication can reach galaxies beyond our planet, not to mention the other living and inanimate entities of our own planet.
