Language Quotes

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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to… — Nathaniel Borenstein
A man who can speak two languages is worth two men. — Napoleon Hill
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language is by its very nature a communal thing... — Thomas Ernest Hulme
The English language is nobody's special property. — Derek Walcott
The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure. — Winston Churchill
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that… — Oscar Wilde
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I… — Mike Judge
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it… — Anne Parillaud
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. — Radclyffe Hall
In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays… — Vladimir Kramnik
I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language. — LaMarcus Aldridge
A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. — Edward R. Murrow
I want guys who want to be here. I want guys who are energetic and passionate. I didn't see any passion from Todd. You could… — Perry Florio
The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping… — Billy Campbell
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. — Kenneth Lee Pike
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be… — Samuel Johnson

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