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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

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush

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

It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child) — Julia Child

The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words. — Matthew Clark

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

Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament? — Paul Washer

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

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. — Harper Lee

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others. — James Thurber

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

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. — Dennis Potter

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

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. — Dean Falk

Language and Knowledge have certain limitations; they can go only up to a certain point, for beyond that lies reality. — Gian Kumar

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

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

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

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic. — Evelyn Waugh

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

By what procedures do men establish the rule-governed links they do between language, on the one hand, and the real world, on the other? — Allan Janik

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. — Howard Tomb

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to. — George Burns

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin

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

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. — Grace Paley

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

If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without. — Lynne Truss

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

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. — Gail Godwin

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English). — Manil Suri

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 very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds. — Josh Lawson

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

I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well. — Maelle Gavet

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

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle. — Samuel Beckett

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. — Paul Muldoon

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about. — Peter Sis

Many people just think they understand English, remember. — Emma Wagner

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

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects. — Greg Carlson

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

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. — Eugene Schwartz

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." I — Elizabeth Strout

They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language. — Tracy Guzeman