Language Quotes
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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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.
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You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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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.
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
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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.
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Music truly is the universal language.
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The only love language is 'die to self.'
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
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The English language is not always the President's friend.
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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
