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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
View quotes by Neale Walsch

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
View quotes by James Baldwin

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
View quotes by Rachel Weisz

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
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Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget (on Dennis Wise)
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I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations
View quotes by Lana Wood

One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!' [on coarse sailing]
View quotes by Michael Green

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
View quotes by Dorothy L Sayers

But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
View quotes by Boris Johnson

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself.
View quotes by Lord Byron

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
View quotes by Dick Schaap

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
View quotes by Judith Martin

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
View quotes by Frank Zappa

If the whole of the english language could be condensed into one word, it would not suffice to express the utter contempt those invite who are so deluded as to be disciples of such an imposture as Darwinism.
View quotes by Francis Morris

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
View quotes by Walt Whitman

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