Language Quotes

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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out… — Heinrich Heine
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and… — Thomas Berry
What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing… — Philip Glass
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what… — Gerhard Richter
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one… — Dennis Nurkse
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. — Jim Harrison
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. — Neville Marriner
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is… — Louis Pasteur
Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of… — Randall Kennedy
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and… — Christopher Dawson
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language — Christopher Dawson
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether… — Pope John XXIII
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. — Edward Sapir
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. — Edward Sapir
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and… — Edward Sapir
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a… — Edward Sapir
English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of… — Edward Sapir
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. — Edward Sapir
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group. — Edward Sapir

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