Language Quotes
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
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No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.
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Dreams are the language your heart speaks to help guide you to your destiny.
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Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
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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.
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Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
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Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.
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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
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Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.
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Language is the key to the heart of people.
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I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
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Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
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Language is a social art.
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
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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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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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Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.
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Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.
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As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.
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In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
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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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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
