Language Quotes

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. — Hannah Arendt
High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various… — Aristotle
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,… — Margaret Atwood
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by… — Michelle Bachelet
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… — Russell Baker
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. — James A. Baldwin
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages,… — J. G. Ballard
I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just… — Antonio Banderas
When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words. — Antonio Banderas
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are… — Drew Barrymore

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