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158 Language Quotes
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Atomic
Life
Feel
Warfare
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But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.
Aleister Crowley
Understand English
One thing
Englishman
Who talk
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Angels
Changed
Devils
Humility
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
Gary Zukav
Although
Authentic
Become
Cannot
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What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Terence McKenna
About
Alive
Become
Building
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
Language
Man
May
Most
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
C. S. Lewis
Always
Anything
Clear
Language
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Cesar Chavez
Character
Exact
Growth
Language
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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.
Toyin Odutola
Basically
Breaking
Breaking Up
Come
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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
Lee Iacocca
Begin
Death
Exactly
Exactly What
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T. S. Eliot
Changing
Help
Language
Only
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
About
Am
Been
Comfortable
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I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
Temple Grandin
Brain
Google
Images
Like
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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.
Temple Grandin
Language
Me
Mind
Pictures
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Easy
Follow
Gift
Got
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
Umberto Eco
Am
Call
Features
Human
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent van Gogh
Feeling
Important
Language
Listen
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
Uzodinma Iweala
Easier
Get
I Love
Language
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
Salma Hayek
Accent
Latin
Mean
Mexican
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
Dirt
French
Language
Romance
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen King
Better
Daily
Daily Lives
Finer
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
Don DeLillo
Beat
Deeper
Down
Integrity
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
Don DeLillo
Books
Language
Man
Shaped
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
Don DeLillo
Alter
Aspire
Consciousness
Deep
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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey
Analysis
Anything
Eloquently
Far
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Elon Musk
Communicate
Email
Good
Love
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Elbert Hubbard
Able
Being
Criticism
Endure
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost
Alone
Call
English
Make
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin
Textile
Built
Woven
Composed
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White
Across
Education
English
Getting
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin
Concealing
Language
Large
Tool
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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
George Carlin
Area
Deserted
Know
Like
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
Jackie Chan
Blah
Crazy
Each
English
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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.
Adrian Mitchell
Believe
Friends
Language
Literary
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
Adrienne Rich
Cycles
Process
Vision
Remains
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George Orwell
Also
Corrupt
Corrupts
Language
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
Aims
Between
Clear
Enemy
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Been
Begin
Children
Could
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Almost
Any
As Far As
Attention
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
H. P. Lovecraft
Actual
Agreement
Attempts
Deserves
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
About
Baseball
English
Italian
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky
Language
Principles
Generation
Interpretation
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Noam Chomsky
Human
Language
Phenomenon
Analogue
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Vladimir Putin
English
Bad
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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
Haruki Murakami
About
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Language
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Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
Prince Royce
Catch
Doing
Had
Interviews
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I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.
Prince Royce
Always
English
Heard
Just
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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert
Bears
Beat
Cracked
Dance
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Gustave Flaubert
Alone
Being
Born
Handicap
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward
Warm
Smile
Universal
Language
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