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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
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
— John Henry Newman
We live at the level of our language.
— Ellen Gilchrist
All talk is small talk.
— Marty Rubin
...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.
— Robert K. Tanenbaum
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
— Gustave Flaubert
It is only through the radical defile of speech that we fall into the illusion that language is a register of conscious construction
— Lacan Jacques
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
— Edwin Newman
That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech ... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
— Gaston Bachelard
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
— Roland Barthes
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Body language, when you know how to read it, can be more expressive than speech. (Mercy)
— Patricia Briggs
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.
— Joseph Brodsky
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
— William Congreve
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
— Howard Nemerov
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
— Laura Esquivel
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
— James C. Humes
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
— William Shakespeare
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
— Mary MacLane
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
— Roman Jakobson
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
Unless I speak, you won't see me.
— Marty Rubin