Language Quotes
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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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We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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I first listen to someone who speaks the language and who reads the lyrics to me. I pay great attention to pronunciation. Once I hear the words spoken, I write the song lines phonetically in Hindi and then sing. By the grace of god, my songs in other languages – including Bengali – have been appreciated. People say they are good and the words have been correctly pronounced.
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At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.
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It's insensitive, inappropriate language, and it's conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.
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If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
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We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
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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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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
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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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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
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Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.
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I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
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God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
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Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
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I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.
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The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
