Language Quotes

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Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. — George W. Crane
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised… — Thomas de Quincey
Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different… — Scilla Elworthy
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to… — W. S. Gilbert
As humans we speak one language... — Avril Lavigne
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the archives of history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!' — Sarah Palin
.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There… — Albert Einstein
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least… — Charles Caleb Colton
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt
Music is the language spoken by angels. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. — Neale Donald Walsch
...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're… — Jim Calhoun
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead… — Henry Ward Beecher
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international.… — Rupert Murdoch
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis

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