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Language Quotes

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate Picture Quote #1

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not Picture Quote #1

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men’s minds and on their tongues if it survives at all Picture Quote #1

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today Picture Quote #1

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops Picture Quote #1

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language Picture Quote #1

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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing Picture Quote #1

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment Picture Quote #1

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people Picture Quote #1

Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars Picture Quote #1

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good Picture Quote #1

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language Picture Quote #1

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There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn’t have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it Picture Quote #1

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved Picture Quote #1

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children’s speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time Picture Quote #1

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite Picture Quote #1

We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed Picture Quote #1

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The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity Picture Quote #1

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language Picture Quote #1

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent Picture Quote #1

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground Picture Quote #1

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language Picture Quote #1

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language Picture Quote #1

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If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it Picture Quote #1

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art Picture Quote #1

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced Picture Quote #1

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning Picture Quote #1

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking Picture Quote #1

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times Picture Quote #1

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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate (Language Quotes) Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not (Language Quotes) Language is a living thing. It must survive in men’s minds and on their tongues if it survives at all (Language Quotes) It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today (Language Quotes) Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops (Language Quotes) A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language (Language Quotes) By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing (Language Quotes) English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment (Language Quotes) If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people (Language Quotes) Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars (Language Quotes) For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good (Language Quotes) One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language (Language Quotes) There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn’t have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it (Language Quotes) Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved (Language Quotes) A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children’s speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers (Language Quotes) Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time (Language Quotes) How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite (Language Quotes) We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed (Language Quotes) The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity (Language Quotes) Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language (Language Quotes) Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent (Language Quotes) Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground (Language Quotes) Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language (Language Quotes) Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language (Language Quotes) If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it (Language Quotes) The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art (Language Quotes) Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced (Language Quotes) It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning (Language Quotes) Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking (Language Quotes) I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times (Language Quotes)

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