Language Quotes
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
Max Lerner
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I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.
Nancy Pearl
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I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.
David Longstreth
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Language is at the core of the intellectual and emotional life of every personality….It is used for the trivia of (everyday) living, on the labour market, in professional activities, in several forms of recreation, in church, in clubs, in schools, and so on. We will mention later the difficulties, which may be dramatic in their intensity, faced by a bilingual person who must work in his second language – his sense of being diminished, the irritation which frequently results, and his loss of efficiency.
Andre Laurendeau
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I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
Warwick Thornton
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Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Sebastian Coe
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Ay, is it not a language I speak?
William Shakespeare
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Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.
Winslow Homer
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There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.
David Longstreth
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Moliere
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She’d been in America almost three years now, but she still wasn’t used to it, the same language sure, but they had different words for everything; she’d learned that a scone was a biscuit, that sidewalk meant a pavement, and that autumn was fall.
Colin Falconer
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If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
Elliot W. Eisner
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
Erica Jong
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The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.
Njabulo S Ndebele
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Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
Carmen Boullosa
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I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Sean Lennon
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What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.
Hector Tobar
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What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.
Michael Eric Dyson
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The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.
Morris Graves
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.
Nancy Pearl
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That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
Sandra Cisneros
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKenna
