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Language Quotes by Daniel Tammet
- Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
- When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I…
- From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several…
- I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my…
- The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the…
- If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from…
More Language Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman