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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them (Language Quotes)
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit (Language Quotes)
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy (Language Quotes)
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me (Language Quotes)
The language I have learnt these forty years, my native English, now I must forgo; and now my tongue's use is to me no more than an unstringed viol or a harp, or like a cunning instrument cased up or, being open, put into his hands that knows no touch to tune the harmony (Language Quotes)
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back (Language Quotes)
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end (Language Quotes)
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered (Language Quotes)
Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language (Language Quotes)
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't (Language Quotes)
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science (Language Quotes)
I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before (Language Quotes)
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate (Language Quotes)
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom (Language Quotes)
Progress - progress is the dirtiest word in the language - who ever told us - and made us believe it - that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always a good idea? (Language Quotes)
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace (Language Quotes)
God, having designed man for a sociable creature, furnished him with language, which was to be the instrument and cementer of society (Language Quotes)
Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire (Language Quotes)
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it (Language Quotes)
Language should almost break up or explode in it's fruitless effort to contain so many meanings (Language Quotes)
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form (Language Quotes)
You'll be free child once you have died from the shackles of language and measurable time (Language Quotes)
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved (Language Quotes)
Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters (Language Quotes)
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular (Language Quotes)
My favorite three words in the English language are: 'I don't know', because every time I say them, I learn something new (Language Quotes)
The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is very deservedly driven out of good company (Language Quotes)
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint (Language Quotes)
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange (Language Quotes)
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that (Language Quotes)