Language Quotes
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
