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.
Judith MartinTwo million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid DiamondNever 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 BaudrillardIf 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 BaudrillardBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellIf you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson MandelaA vain, idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on [on tennis]
James HoggWhen 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 JonesI love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco ChanelHe attempts to use language which he does not know
PersiusEvery major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire BellocThe 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 ByronComedy 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 GoodmanNinety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget (on Dennis Wise)
Gianfranco ZolaGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra PoundI do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
Jurgen KlinsmannTwo nations divided by a common language.
Winston ChurchillFrench is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen KingDreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
Gail GodwinPolitical chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George OrwellViewed 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 WhitmanI do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
Sir Edward Appleton What language are you talking in now? It appears to be Bollocks.
Richard WilsonLanguage tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
Penelope Lively'Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English
George Bernard ShawTo have another language is to possess a second soul.
CharlemagneWe have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language
Oscar WildeI believe that there is a devil. Those who disagree with me in this may translate my language. All I ask is that they admit the vital truth on which I insist.
Anthony ComstockA common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael HowardSemantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
Roman JakobsonI don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward AppletonScience 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 BallardI wonder what language truck drivers are using,
now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl PfizerOur language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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 TillichA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston BachelardWhere nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind
Edward YoungLanguage has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
John ClareBad language is the only thing we have in common with the Osbournes.
Francis FulfordWorks 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 ColeridgeGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra PoundI 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 WoodLanguage is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphrey DavyI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinThere 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 CanettiIf the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John HumeReal programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry WallIf 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.
Francis MorrisMy first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al PacinoMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin HeideggerI 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.
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