Language Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie
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
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule
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
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly
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
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
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
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
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
A thug only understands you when you speak his language — Alexander Lukashenko
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
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
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
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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