The eyes have one language everywhere.
George HerbertPoetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T S EliotEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James BaldwinI 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.
Dick SchaapYour purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale CarnegieLanguage... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul TillichMy first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al PacinoAn animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin BuberThe 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
Frank ZappaLife is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it (Thunder on the Left)
Christopher MorleyBy and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin'Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English
George Bernard ShawOur thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming language.
John BackusI think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
Natalie ColeThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesOne who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!' [on coarse sailing]
Michael GreenLanguage is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphrey DavyFrench is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen KingGreat art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhanThe 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.
Dorothy L SayersI don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward AppletonAt the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
Rachel WeiszA language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Joseph BrodskyScience and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J G BallardThe quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J Michael StraczynskiOn Sylvester Stallone: 'You have this preconceived notion of him as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.'
Rachael Leigh CookMoney speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn[on understanding] The definition is this: to understand something is to know what it means, to know what its significance is. To understand a sentence is to know what it means, to understand a language is to know what its words and sentences mean, to understand a phenomenon more generally is to know its significance.
Tim CraneSummer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry JamesWhere nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind
Edward YoungHe attempts to use language which he does not know
PersiusNever 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.
Jean BaudrillardMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin HeideggerNothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash (The Language of Art)
Walter SickertComedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul GoodmanPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinWhen I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language
James Earl JonesLanguage is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
Kelly FordyceThere is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Elias CanettiSnogging is the universal language of the world
Mark FeehilyThe 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.
Lord ByronParents 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.
Judith MartinLanguage is the dress of thought.
Samuel JohnsonAccuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell JamesonA vain, idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on [on tennis]
James HoggGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra PoundWe call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph RouxTo have another language is to possess a second soul.
CharlemagneThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig WittgensteinOn contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.'
Ben Affleck
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