Language Quotes
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If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.
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I see tendencies, I see body language.
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Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.
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We know the left hemisphere has come online when children start to understand language and learn how to speak.
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It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.
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The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.
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When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
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Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
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It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.
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Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
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If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
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I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
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Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.
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To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
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Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
