Language Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. — John Clayton
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
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. — Robert Morgan
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. — Timothy West
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
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
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
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
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
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself. — Anish Kapoor
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
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
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
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. — Bobby Jindal
I have set out to change the language of the international system. — Clare Short

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