Language Quotes
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I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
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Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
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God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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As a writer, I consider it my job to deliver new language to the church. Language that inspires, that deepens understanding. Language born from revelation. My prayer is that the lyrics of Christ Be Magnified would set the church on fire.
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A thug only understands you when you speak his language.
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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
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All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.
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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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Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.
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I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.
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Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.
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Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.
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I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.
