Language Quotes

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. — John Holmes
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to… — Alison Lurie
The art of communication is the language of leadership. — James Humes
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names,… — Thomas Mann
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. — John Erskine
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And… — Paul Tillich
We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents,… — Marc Forne Molne
Playing golf is like learning a foreign language. — Henry Longhurst
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. — Carol Shields
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and… — Boris Trajkovski
To have another language is to possess a second soul. — Charlemagne
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided… — Joseph Howe
Language is froth on the surface of thought. — John McCarthy
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know… — Ian Smith
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! — Alexander Henry
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the… — Emily Carr
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. — Thomas Lynch
They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who… — Harry Hopkins
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the… — Howard Baker
We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks -… — Kenneth L. Pike

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