Language Quotes

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Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot… — Joy Harjo
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival. — N. Scott Momaday
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who… — Walter Dean Myers
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
I want a language that speaks the truth. — Studs Terkel
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga
One must not be shy where language is concerned. — Ann Patchett
I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when itâ€™s appropriate, for effect (...) â€˜You cocksucker.â€™ I love that kind of… — Andrew Breitbart
Itâ€™s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with… — Stan Getz
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event… — Alain Badiou
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,… — Claude Levi-Strauss
I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food! — Karlie Kloss
You donâ€™t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words… — Jonathan Lethem
You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is… — Jay McInerney
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise, — Jacqueline Woodson
A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the â€“not always greatly… — Paul Celan
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. — Emile M. Cioran
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways… — Don DeLillo
I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about â€¦ I've slept with girls; I've slept with… — Amanda Palmer

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