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There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck’ish about the colour black — in itself.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Body language has no translation.

—Ljupka Cvetanova

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I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

—Kobe Bryant

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Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

—Joey Lawsin

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Why no s for two deer,but an s for two monkeys?Brother Quang saysno one knows.So much for rules!Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake.

—Thanhha Lai

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

—Henry Sweet

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Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven’t forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to...

—John Edgar Wideman

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By the way I also would say “I got a book.” But your teacher and I are not “English teachers” in the same sense. She has to put across an idea of what the English...

—C.S. Lewis

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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I’m trying to convey) is only one part of it....

—David Foster Wallace

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age” whatsoever.

—Jakub Marian

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The three most dreaded words in the English language are ‘negative cash flow’.

—David Tang

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I’ve never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

—Edgar Ramirez

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Invisible prose only!” rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, is the craft and offers a unique...

—Diane Ackerman

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One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds....

—George Saunders

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If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.

—G.K. Chesterton

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

—Howard Nemerov

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I can kick the can down the road, and I can also kick other modal verbs.

—Jarod Kintz

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I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. “Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to...

—David Markson

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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

—Jean-Jacques Annaud

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Betrug und Schönheit der Sprache bestehen darin, dass sie das ganze Universum zu ordnen scheint und uns zu der Annahme verführt, wir lebten in Anbetracht eines rationalen Raumes, einer möglichen Harmonie. Doch da Wörter uns...

—John Burnside

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The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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Words can’t save you, but they can give you courage.

—Marty Rubin

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FV: Annandale defines ‘definition’ as “an explanation of the signification of a term.” Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as “a statement of the precise meaning of a word.” A small, perhaps negligible...

—Mort W.

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Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

—NoViolet Bulawayo

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How many people today live in a language that is not their own? Or no longer, or not yet, even know their own and know poorly the major language that they are forced to serve?...

—Kafka

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You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.

—Mary Norris

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A man’s words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man...

—N.D. Wilson

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Loose and forbear!

—Mark Twain

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You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

—Lewis Tappan

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Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

—Julia Penelope

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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

—Margaret Atwood

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Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.

—Ritesh Shrivastav

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All language is an aspiration to music.

—Steve Almond

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

—Roland Barthes

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Nick demonstrated twenty-three ways of communicating without words by fanning himself with a napkin. “This one means oops, your fly is open, sir, and if you lower the fan a little and look at someone...

—Kerstin Gier

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What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me about that is we’re talking about an art form in which...

—Stuart Dybek

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We’re guardedly happy. Meanwhile, we’ll go on with our mission as before: training language students. We did it yesterday, we’re doing it today and we’ll do it tomorrow.

—Patricia Ryan

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

—Samuel Butler

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the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs,...

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

—Wanda Jackson

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Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

—Tim Jackson

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It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

—Peter Akinola

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He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

—Sara Sheridan

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We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so...

—Vladimir Nabokov

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The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways – it is a purely subjective experience.

—Tina Ambani

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Mal nommer un objet, c’est ajouter au malheur de ce monde. Et justement la grande misère humaine qui a longtemps poursuivi [Brice] Parain et qui lui a inspiré des accents si émouvants, c’est le mensonge....

—Albert Camus

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A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.

—Celia Mcmahon

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The people of South Sudan are ethnically different. They have their own language, and many of them are Christians. It is based on identity.

—Anna Hadingham

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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on...

—Adam Gopnik

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