Language Quotes

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I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the… — Anita Shreve
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted… — Natasha Trethewey
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me… — Natasha Trethewey
Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear… — Steve Stoute
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. — Henry Rollins
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than… — Eduardo Galeano
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants… — Eduardo Galeano
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people… — Larry Ellison
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him. — Henry Grunwald
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics… — F. Sionil Jose
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father… — Helen Vendler
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence… — Alice Oswald
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even… — F. Sionil Jose
I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American. — I. King Jordan
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language. — Jean Hanff Korelitz
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I… — Hamdi Ulukaya
If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work. — A. R. Rahman
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language. — Shreya Ghoshal
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have… — Ann Demeulemeester
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language. — Bahman Ghobadi

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