Language Quotes
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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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It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise.
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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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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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Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.
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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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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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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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They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.
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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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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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The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
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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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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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I knew that all South Indian language films were first made in Chennai and that Tamil Nadu is one of the biggest film-producing centres in the country. I wanted to be part of films here.
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If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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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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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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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.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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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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It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.
