Language Quotes
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A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
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I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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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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I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.
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I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
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I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'
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You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
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Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
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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.
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For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the language we chose to use, in what we enjoyed. She helped me see and appreciate a lot both about myself and my loved ones.
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
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The unconscious is structured like a language.
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I do believe that in America there needs to be a primary language and that English should be that language, it's not a radical position, it's a position that's held by countless people who are Latino.
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Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
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The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
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It's insensitive, inappropriate language, and it's conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
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I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the economy or even their language, the body or its sensorium, but I could not imagine this, could not even imagine imagining it. And yet when I imagined the total victory of those other things over poetry, when I imagined, with a sinking feeling, a world without even the terrible excuses for poems that kept faith with the virtual possibilities of the medium, without the sort of absurd ritual I'd participated in that evening then I intuited an inestimable loss, a loss not of artworks but of art, and therefore infinite, the total triumph of the actual, and I realized that, in such a world, I would swallow a bottle of white pills.
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Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
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Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
