Language Quotes

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Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand. — Amy-Jill Levine
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be.… — Jeff Stilson
If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature,… — John Jay Chapman
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we… — Albert Einstein
Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and… — Rick Strassman
And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows. — Opal Whiteley
The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it. — Hilde Bruch
The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time,… — Rolf Potts
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it. — Unknown Author
The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. — Alice McDermott
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way.… — Lauren F. Winner
When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its accessible, and you… — Eiji Aonuma
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly… — Ramachandra Guha
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United… — Ernest L. Wilkinson
We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture â€“ at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information… — Darrel Ray
Language is the soulâ€™s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril. — Sven Birkerts
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,… — Sven Birkerts
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a… — Norman Doidge
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of… — Clifton Fadiman

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