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Language Quotes by Peter Farb
- An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the…
- Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.
- No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from…
- Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly…
- People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.
- Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these…
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- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce
- I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel