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It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots;… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
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I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will… — Arthur E. Kennelly Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
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How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
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The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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![“It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So…” quote by John Carpenter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/john-carpenter-11345_afraid_it-horror-genre-never-dies-it-just-keeps_2774594.png)
