Language Quotes

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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. — Sivananda
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. — Edward Gibbon
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages. — James M. Barrie
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. — Nelly Sachs
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence:… — Octavio Paz
I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you inside yourself have… — Rajneesh
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every… — William Morris Hunt
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. — Balthus
Painting is by nature a luminous language. — Robert Delaunay
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. — Paul Gauguin
Colors speak all languages. — Joseph Addison
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the… — Ambrose Bierce
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. — Mark Twain
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. — Karl Kraus
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful… — Rudolf Steiner
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new… — Freeman Dyson

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