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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.
— Nahiyan Bin Asadullah
The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!
— Nicole Krauss
Typography is what language looks like.
— Ellen Lupton
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
— Jackson Browne
It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
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
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
— Robert Fripp
For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
— Patrick Rothfuss
So often what is really nothing short of a power grab is cast in the lofty language of 'progress.
— Charles C.W. Cooke
The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.
— Jil Sander
His heart is kind and those big hands are soft. He speaks a language that can change what I believe.
— Amanda Marshall
The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.
— Roy Horn
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
— Stanley Fish
Culver is a language magnet school. What it's mainly a magnet for, if you want to know the truth, is nerds.
— Dave Barry
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
— Cyril Connolly
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
Language is what stops the heart exploding.
— Jeanette Winterson
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
— Steven Pinker
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
— Garrison Keillor
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
— Jane Goodall
What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?
— Mary C. Ames
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
— Ellen Goodman
Food is a language of care, the thing we do when traditional language fails us, when we don't know what to say, when there are no words to say.
— Shauna Niequist
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?
— Swami Vivekananda
Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.
— Debasish Mridha
Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.
— Anne Carson
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.
— Monique Wittig
Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.
— Victor Hugo
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
— Irene Nemirovsky
We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.
— Shay Carl
I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.
— Jennifer Hale
Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me is mine?
— Jeanette Winterson
Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?" "I don't even know what language that is. — Joel N. Ross
Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least
— Voltaire
The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.
— Larry Herzberg
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
— Otl Aicher
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
— Terence McKenna
"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."
— Chauncey Depew
No matter what, the Earth is fucked," Rigney said. "Excuse the language, but that's the gist of what I'm hearing from you.
— John Scalzi
The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet. — Walpola Rahula
A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.
— John Hall Wheelock
At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.
— Vint Cerf
I know what the structure of the language is.
— Kurt Loder
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
— Patricia K. Kuhl
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
— Graciela Iturbide
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
— Carlos Fuentes
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.
— Vivek Shanbhag
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
— Erol Alkan
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
— Edward Appleton
I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
— Simon Van Booy
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
— Stephen Greenblatt
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a "proposition" is a position in the game of language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
— Debasish Mridha
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
— Italo Calvino
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.
— Mark Pesce
Reuben was the child of Polish-speaking parents.' The Director interrupted himself. 'You know what Polish is, I suppose?' 'A dead language.
— Aldous Huxley
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
