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Language Quotes
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words. - Godfrey Reggio Quotes
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us dont even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. - Michael Moore Quotes
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. - Wilfrid Laurier Quotes
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. - Edward Sapir Quotes
Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire Quotes
My least favorite phrase in the English language is I dont care. - James Caan Quotes
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. - Charles Scribner Jr Quotes
The writers language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. - Paul De Man Quotes
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. - Ferdinand De Saussure Quotes
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee. - Ben Jonson Quotes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. - Roland Barthes Quotes
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. - George Santayana Quotes
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? - Hugo Ball Quotes
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. - Andrzej Wajda Quotes
As advertising blather becomes the nations normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. - George Will Quotes
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. - Edward Sapir Quotes
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. - Herb Ritts Quotes
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. - Russell Hoban Quotes
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. - Steven Pinker Quotes
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but its also the language of the Hindus. - Ismail Merchant Quotes
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. - Jose Rizal Quotes
Its always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. - Alain Prost Quotes
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. - Gore Vidal Quotes
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. - Edward Sapir Quotes
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell Quotes
Ive worked with Bob Hoskins three times. We all talk the same language in a way. We just had a laugh and tried to keep things light. - Natasha Richardson Quotes
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. - Flora Lewis Quotes
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody elses language. - Steve Lacy Quotes
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