Language Quotes
5358 quotes by 3063 authors
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Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to…
— Leo Ornstein
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There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language…
— Sophie Marceau
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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the…
— John Charles Polanyi
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That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us…
— Morris Graves
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
— John Clayton
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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of…
— Robert Morgan
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
— Robert Morgan
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Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
— Timothy West
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After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
— Hu Shih
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the…
— Edward Sapir
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand…
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
— Anish Kapoor
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Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming…
— Henry Lawson
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Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
— Keith Henson
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And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs…
— Thomas More
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Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
— Bobby Jindal
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I have set out to change the language of the international system.
— Clare Short
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