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That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned. — John W. Campbell

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

If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over. — Rodney Ulyate

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. — John Hume

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

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

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

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce

The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media, I said, meaninglessly. — Ben Lerner

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. — Jimenez Lai

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. — Karl Kraus

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

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak. — Samuel Adams

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

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. — Rumi

I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile. — Indira Varma

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. — Eduardo Galeano

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

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

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

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier. — Frank Leahy

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

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

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

As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex. — Kristen Schaal

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. — Ron Jeffries

C is the assembly language of Tcl. — Karl Lehenbauer

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

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

Kindness is the language of love. — Debasish Mridha

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible. — Julia Ward Howe

I can't make out what they're saying; it sounds like: hiss, blah, she hiss, squeak. But the aunt appears to speak the native language. — Emma Chase

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf

The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine. — Dov Davidoff

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. — Georgann Low

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code. — Terence McKenna

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four. — Dakota Blue Richards

Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture. — John H. Walton

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you learn the language of divine love, everything become divine, miraculous and lovely. — Debasish Mridha

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. — Ed Markey

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much. — Patricia Riggen

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that. — David Rees

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us. — Terence McKenna

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

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. — Quentin Tarantino

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

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language. — Miguel

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning, — Yehuda Amichai

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

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. — Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus Du Sautoy

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. — Max Frisch

Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

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

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.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart. — Richard Jackson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten

Be my linguist

Turn me
into your words. — Banoo Zan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. — Frank Herbert

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

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

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

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

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

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