Language Quotes

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The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is. — Roy Horn
The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That… — Jamaica Kincaid
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the… — Daniel Tammet
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from… — Daniel Tammet
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American… — Marilynne Robinson
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There… — Edwin Morgan
I feel that I speak the musical language. — Marsha Norman
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals… — Quentin Bryce
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that… — Joanne Harris
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that… — Amin Maalouf
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in… — Ravi Zacharias
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if… — Timothy Ferriss
You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a… — Marina Abramovic
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect… — Mark Z. Danielewski
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look… — Naomi Shihab Nye
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside… — Naomi Shihab Nye
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so,… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language. — Tariq Ramadan

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