Language Quotes
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What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
Terence McKenna
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
Michel Foucault
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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
Sean O'Casey
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
Terry Eagleton
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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Eugene Delacroix
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If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.
Judith Butler
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder
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Music is a language, a universal language.
Sun Ra
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People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
Steve Earle
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
Richard Wilson
