Language Quotes

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Music is the universal language. — Swizz Beatz
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,… — Jeanette Winterson
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and… — Michael Silverblatt
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law — Ferdinand de Saussure
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. — Ferdinand de Saussure
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to… — Mikhail Bakhtin
The word in language is half someone elseâ€™sâ€¦ it exists in other peopleâ€™s mouths, in other peopleâ€™s contexts, serving other peopleâ€™s intentions: it is from… — Mikhail Bakhtin
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort… — Roman Jakobson
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any… — Zoltan Kodaly
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart. — Gioachino Rossini
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading… — Mortimer Adler
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and… — George Orwell
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… — Bill Bryson
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every… — Henry David Thoreau
All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — Unknown Author
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling
To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English… — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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