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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. — Bela Lugosi

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic. — P. J. O'Rourke

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement. — Oliver Sacks

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of ... of abstractions. — Albert Camus

A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess, Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook. — Erin Morgenstern

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people. — Raymond Chandler

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here. — Katrina Kaif

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. — Emil Cioran

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 language of feelings is not linear, logical, and verbal like the language of thinking. — Deborah Sandella

Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language. — C. G. Jung

Silence is the language of inertia. — Margaret Heffernan

English is my second language. Laughter is my first. — Paul Krassner

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music. — CL

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. — Bobby Jindal

Palate properly whetted, I spelunked for her clitoris, tasting Bourgogne Rouge and Maya's body. — Rex Pickett

Over the water of time I call to you
In a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. — Buck Henry

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. — Blake Judd

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade ... — Errol Morris

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings — Jonathan Safran Foer

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy

Culver is a language magnet school. What it's mainly a magnet for, if you want to know the truth, is nerds. — Dave Barry

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better. — Rob Pike

Love is the most important word in the English language
and the most confusing. — Gary Chapman

Discovering your own love language helps you understand why you feel more loved and appreciated by certain people than you do. — Gary Chapman

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. — Rita Dove

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other. — Jennifer Abbott

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it. — Sarah Jio

You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten

Be my linguist

Turn me
into your words. — Banoo Zan

The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words. — Juefan Huihong

My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art. — E.L. James

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. — John Millington Synge

Unless I speak, you won't see me. — Marty Rubin

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. — John Lawler

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned. — Carolyn Maloney

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. — John Berger

I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this. — Kate Christensen

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. — Edmund De Waal

I was always influenced by language. — Helen Dunmore

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language. — Rashida Jones

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. — Thomas Paine

Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion. — Alex Ferguson

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. — Chris Matakas

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. — Tariq Ramadan

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. — Per Petterson

The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. — Wladimir Klitschko

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. — Paul Tillich

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton

As humans we speak one language ... — Avril Lavigne

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story. — Christina Baldwin

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none. — Orson Scott Card

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. — Stephen Fry

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. — Marilyn Vos Savant

There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas. — Kato Lomb

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil. — Hannah More

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it. — Max Barry

Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril. — Sven Birkerts

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. — Alfred North Whitehead

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language. — Raj Thackeray

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world. — Carrie Fisher

She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks. — Audrey Niffenegger

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. — NoViolet Bulawayo

Body language translation: hell yes, dipshit — Shay Rucker

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have. — Larry Herzberg

I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies. — Harry Knowles

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language. — Joseph Brodsky

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect. — Jennifer Hale

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue. — Bell Hooks

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur — Doug Larson

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. — Anthony Burgess

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished. — Confucius

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is. — Gertrude Stein

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. — Miguel De Cervantes

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." — Harry Bridges

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. — Iman

The dance is the mother of all languages. — Robin G. Collingwood

True love has her own language. — Debasish Mridha

Be careful. I wouldn't want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language."
I laughed. "No problemo. — Kiersten White

If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant. — Erin Moure

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers. — Nicholas Ostler

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. — Mark Hopkins

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style. — Massimo Vignelli

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. — Winston Churchill