Language Quotes
5358 quotes by 3185 authors
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For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details…
— Janine Benyus
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
— John Henry Newman
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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a…
— Desmond Morris
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My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people…
— Art Linkletter
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the…
— Antonin Artaud
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A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do
— Dennis Ritchie
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Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new…
— Peggy Noonan
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
— Jane Rule
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Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell…
— Richard P. Bland
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
— Robert Bly
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The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the…
— Leon Uris
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At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The…
— Leonard Michaels
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The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would…
— Kevin Canty
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My point to you is, there is no such thing as a flop that takes the field for our football team. Just so ya know,…
— Les Miles
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A thug only understands you when you speak his language
— Alexander Lukashenko
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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain…
— Derrick Jensen
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If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could…
— Peter Lynch
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Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per…
— Jane Goodall
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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