Language Quotes
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting.
Elizabeth Wein
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry -
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder -
Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
Evan Wolfson -
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
Rex Harrison -
What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
Richard Wilson
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This language is beginning to invent another me.
Eva Hoffman -
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound -
The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.
Walter Armstrong, III -
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
Willie Rushton -
The only love language is 'die to self.'
Christine Caine -
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
Terence McKenna
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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will -
It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
Eugene Delacroix -
Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
My mother tongue is Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
Mother Teresa -
Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
Terry Eagleton -
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
Stephen Fry