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He attempts to use language which he does not know
Persius

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.
Stephen Harper

Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
Kelly Fordyce

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Joseph Brodsky

To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
Jaroslav Pelikan

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal

Your 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 Carnegie

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

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James Baldwin

Bad language is the only thing we have in common with the Osbournes.
Francis Fulford

On 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

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Science 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 Ballard

Snogging is the universal language of the world
Mark Feehily

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al Pacino

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
John Clare

Comedy 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 Goodman

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc

Where nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind
Edward Young

On his own history with mathematics, and connection with John Nash: 'I had a bit of a hiccup in the third year of high school. The school I was at hired a non-English speaking Hungarian who was a professional of some great standing in Eastern Europe. But he hadn't learned the English language yet. He probably is a great asset to the teaching staff now, but we were his first class. That was when mathematics and I parted ways.

'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
Russell Crowe

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn

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
Lana Wood

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it (Thunder on the Left)
Christopher Morley

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.
Boris Johnson

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra Pound

The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell Jameson

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.
Dorothy L Sayers

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language
Oscar Wilde

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J Michael Straczynski

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael Howard

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
Neale Walsch

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King

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.
Walt Whitman

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Language... 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 Tillich

Two million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid Diamond

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
Sir Edward Appleton

Our 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 Backus

When 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 Jones

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
Jay Leno

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



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