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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
If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
— Rodney Ulyate
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
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
— Walter Savage Landor
They were speaking the language of Heaven
— Jamie McGuire
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
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
— Helmut Newton
When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.
— Pamela Cummins
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 importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
— Henri Matisse
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
— Samuel Adams
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
— Toni Morrison
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
— Margaret Wise Brown
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
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The language of feelings is not linear, logical, and verbal like the language of thinking.
— Deborah Sandella
Silence is the language of inertia.
— Margaret Heffernan
Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.
— Mary Norris
Who wants to make the language of dreams?
— Austin Grossman
To build a software that your users understand, capture the language of that users in a class diagram.
— Michael Jesse Chonoles
Over the water of time I call to you
In a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe
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
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
— Rudolf Arnheim
i couldn't speak the language of his feelings
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
— Terence McKenna
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
— Wilson Follett
Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.
— Gianfranco Zola
Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
The purpose of language is to facilitate expression and communication, not to altogether define or contain them.
— Jennifer Hamady
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
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
— Vladimir Putin
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
— Etgar Keret
Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development
— David Crystal
The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.
— Iben Dissing Sandahl
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle
-Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
— Kate Grenville
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
— P. F. Strawson
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
— Eugenio Montale
Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.
— Debasish Mridha
Music is the language of the heart without words.
— Shinichi Suzuki
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.
— David James Duncan
The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.
— Brene Brown
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
— Eavan Boland
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The activity of art is ... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
— Leo Tolstoy
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
— Cynthia Ozick
The dance is the mother of all languages.
— Robin G. Collingwood
I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe.
— Edward Gibbon
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
The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.
— Juefan Huihong
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
The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine.
— Dov Davidoff
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
I laughed. "No problemo. — Kiersten White
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 abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
— Hannah More
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
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
The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
— Mark Hopkins
To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.
— Anthony Burgess
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
— Marcus Du Sautoy
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
— Alan Moore
The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...
— Martha N. Beck
Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.
— Frans De Waal
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.
— James P. Carse
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
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
When you learn the language of divine love, everything become divine, miraculous and lovely.
— Debasish Mridha
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
— Ambrose Bierce
But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
— Richard Jackson
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
— Terence McKenna
Kindness is the language of love.
— Debasish Mridha
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