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Stories are the reproductive organs of language.
— Robert Bringhurst
When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
— Barbara Kruger
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
— Guido Van Rossum
Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
— Gustave Flaubert
My favorite three words in the English language are: 'I don't know', because every time I say them, I learn something new.
— Timothy Leary
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
— George Bernard Shaw
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.
— Henry David Thoreau
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
— James F. Cooper
The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.
— Harvey MacKay
All propositions are of equal value.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
— George Santayana
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
— Gertrude Stein
These days we are experiencing an unprecedented Anglo-Saxon bias against foreign terms.
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
We are all connected by common threads in our experiences despite language barriers or geographical distance.
— Esha Young
Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
— John Green
Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.
— Paulo Coelho
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
— Leslie Feinberg
Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.
— Andrew Dalby
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
— Daniel Everett
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.
— Anurag Kashyap
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.
— Havelock Ellis
The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.
— Elliot W. Eisner
Many people have a gift for language that flows when they are talking and dries up when they are confronted with the blank page,
— Francine Prose
Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.
— Frans De Waal
I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.
— Jonas Gahr Store
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
— Simon Van Booy
Lexicographers are language reporters.
— Erin McKean
There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.
— Jodi Sky Rogers
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
— Samuel Johnson
The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'.
— Woody Allen
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun
— David Crystal
Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
— Per Petterson
Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.
— Jean Aitchison
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
— Greg Grunberg
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
— Emma Lazarus
Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.
— Monique Truong
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
You are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.
— Garrison Keillor
The pauses are a precise language, more a language than actual language is, Elisabeth thinks.
— Ali Smith
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
— David Parnas
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
— Alice Walker
The language of shame is extreme. Hear it enough and you believe it. You are told you are disgusting and unclean, and eventually you believe you are.
— Edward T. Welch
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.
— Shannon Phillips
We are bees then; our honey is language.
— Robert Bly
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
— Derek Sivers
Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.
— Gianfranco Zola
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.
— Stephen Stills
Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.
— Tessa Jowell
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
— Henry David Thoreau
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.
— Herbert Simon
I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
— Jodi Picoult
I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story) ...
— Shari Wiedmann
Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.
— Barry Webster
If you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
