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That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.
— John W. Campbell
Sign Language: Young Kids Know More Than They Can Say When you think about it, it's not so easy
— Harvey Karp
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.
— Steve Chandler
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
— William Shakespeare
Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?
— Russell Baker
They were speaking the language of Heaven
— Jamie McGuire
If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language' ... you're not putting the person first.
— Stuart Duncan
The locust has no kingJust noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
— Sophie Swetchine
They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?
— Greg Curtis
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
— Larry Wall
There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!
— Barbara Holland
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
— Jamie L. Harding
They're not fat pigs; we're mad scientists.
— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
— Agatha Christie
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
— Barry Hannah
Do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be.
— William Gaddis
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
— Alan Moore
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
— Otl Aicher
Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.
— Jennifer New
Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...
— Elizabeth Bowen
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
— Ann Widdecombe
In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."
— Michael Glawogger
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
No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.
— Bill Engvall
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
— Francois Rabelais
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
— Siri Hustvedt
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
Words can't save you, but they can give you courage.
— Marty Rubin
Since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
— Jay Griffiths
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
— Walter Lippmann
Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.
— David Kyuman Kim
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
— Aleister Crowley
The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it.
— Howard Tomb
People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.
— Mithun Chakraborty
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
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
— Henry David Thoreau
They put the picture in the window when they have something, take it away when they don't. Sign language.
— Margaret Atwood
Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.
— Frans De Waal
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
— Zora Neale Hurston
All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
— Erol Alkan
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
— Roman Jakobson
All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.
— Louis Claude De Saint-Martin
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
— Emma Lazarus
Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
— Samuel Beckett
The Inuit language has no difference between he or she, or between mankind and animal," she adds. "They're all equal."5
— Colin Woodard
It's only words... unless they're true.
— David Mamet
They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field. — San Juan De La Cruz
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
— David Parnas
When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language.
— Philip Pullman
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
— Patricia K. Kuhl
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.
— Shannon Hale
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
— Maria Montessori
Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.
— Friedrich Frobel
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
— Paul Muldoon
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.
— Robert W. Floyd
Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some attempts at translating from one language into another one can be pretty funny if the translators don't know what they're doing.
— Lori Peckham
I see no difference between a genius and a loony, they both speak a language that I find strange.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.
— Joan Barfoot
Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.
— Theodor Adorno
Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.
— Judith Wright
The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth. — Mahmoud Darwish
