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Language Quotes


"the common bonding of reflection and language; it is not in itself the..."

Full 'Geoffrey Hill' Quote   Source: Geoffrey Hill
"emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be..."

Full 'Diane Ackerman' Quote   Source: Diane Ackerman
"A riot is the language of the unheard."

Full 'Martin Luther King' Quote   Source: Martin Luther King
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages."

Full 'John Dryden' Quote   Source: John Dryden
"you about a vision in the unvisionary language of farm, city and love...."

Full 'Paul Engle' Quote   Source: Paul Engle
"the only country left where we teach languages so that no pupil can speak"

Full 'John Erskine' Quote   Source: John Erskine
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical..."

Full 'Thomas Mann' Quote   Source: Thomas Mann
"enable him to express himself in his own language...."

Full 'Henri Matisse' Quote   Source: Henri Matisse
"And sure in language strange she said, I love thee true."

Full 'John Keats' Quote   Source: John Keats
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are..."

Full 'Gore Vidal' Quote   Source: Gore Vidal
"mean, but they don't say it in daytime language."

Full 'Gail Godwin' Quote   Source: Gail Godwin
"residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the..."

Full 'James Baldwin' Quote   Source: James Baldwin
"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics"

Full 'Frank Capra' Quote   Source: Frank Capra
"genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most..."

Full 'Kurt Vonnegut' Quote   Source: Kurt Vonnegut
"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to"

Full 'Jane Wagner' Quote   Source: Jane Wagner
"I try for a poetic language that says, "This is who we are, where we..."

Full 'Mari Evans' Quote   Source: Mari Evans
"101 words a minute. But it's in my own language."

Full 'Mitch Hedberg' Quote   Source: Mitch Hedberg
"Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying..."

Full 'Mari Evans' Quote   Source: Mari Evans
"but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled..."

Full 'Robertson Davies' Quote   Source: Robertson Davies
"this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be..."

Full 'John Jay Chapman' Quote   Source: John Jay Chapman
"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty"

Full 'Douglas Adams' Quote   Source: Douglas Adams
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one..."

Full 'Vincent Van Gogh' Quote   Source: Vincent Van Gogh
"It is time for dead languages to be quiet."

Full 'Natalie Clifford Barney' Quote   Source: Natalie Clifford Barney
"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."

Full 'Rita Mae Brown' Quote   Source: Rita Mae Brown
"Language is a road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come..."

Full 'Rita Mae Brown' Quote   Source: Rita Mae Brown
"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of"

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"Language most shows a man; speak, that I may see thee!"

Full 'Ben Johnson' Quote   Source: Ben Johnson
"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain..."

Full 'Paul Tillich' Quote   Source: Paul Tillich
"music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend..."

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."

Full 'Lily Tomlin' Quote   Source: Lily Tomlin
"expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express..."

Full 'Paul Tillich' Quote   Source: Paul Tillich
"same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we..."

Full 'John Denver' Quote   Source: John Denver
"Italian-American immigrants lost their language and a lot of their..."

Full 'Mario Batali' Quote   Source: Mario Batali
"My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the..."

Full 'Al Pacino' Quote   Source: Al Pacino
"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach."

Full 'Abbie Hoffman' Quote   Source: Abbie Hoffman
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth"

Full 'Sam Rayburn' Quote   Source: Sam Rayburn
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with..."

Full 'Paul Engle' Quote   Source: Paul Engle
"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to..."

Full 'T S Eliot' Quote   Source: T S Eliot
"Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language...."

Full 'Jay Leno' Quote   Source: Jay Leno
"to express yourself without using bad language!..."

Full 'Judge Judy' Quote   Source: Judge Judy
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes"

Full 'Carl Sandberg' Quote   Source: Carl Sandberg
"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts..."

Full 'Hippocrates' Quote   Source: Hippocrates
"The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing."

Full 'Roger W Babson' Quote   Source: Roger W Babson
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote   Source: Henry David Thoreau
"lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds..."

Full 'George Byron' Quote   Source: George Byron
"The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves."

Full 'Mary Daly' Quote   Source: Mary Daly
"his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise...."

Full 'Edward Gibbon' Quote   Source: Edward Gibbon
"There are things that music can do that language could never do, that..."

Full 'Marsha Norman' Quote   Source: Marsha Norman
"speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us...."

Full 'Barbara Ehrenreich' Quote   Source: Barbara Ehrenreich
"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every..."

Full 'Walt Whitman' Quote   Source: Walt Whitman
"War is what happens when language fails"

Full 'Margaret Atwood' Quote   Source: Margaret Atwood
"may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of"

Full 'Toni Morrison' Quote   Source: Toni Morrison
"on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat..."

Full 'Booker T. Washington' Quote   Source: Booker T. Washington
"president who's fluent in at least one language."

Full 'Buck Henry' Quote   Source: Buck Henry
"but keep your mouth shut or talk their language...."

Full 'Harper Lee' Quote   Source: Harper Lee