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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself...

—Amara Lakhous

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Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and everything that is dark. And then this terrifying thought hits you:...

—Bilal Tanweer

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A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.

—Alberto Caeiro

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Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.

—Anne Deavere Smith

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The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man’s best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply...

—Ashly Lorenzana

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And in fact, I dream in whatever language I’m living in. So that, you know, after six months of being in the States, I started dreaming in English again. And when I moved back to...

—Alma Guillermoprieto

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As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.

—Bruce Berger

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Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It’s all you’ve got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

—Charles Wright

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Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi – waliojitolea vitu vingi katika maisha yao kunifikisha hapa nilipo...

—Enock Maregesi

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That’s just like the manual says,’ said Witherwax. “If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody understands all the time.”You mean with no homonyms?’ said Doc Brenner.Mr. Gross belched...

—Fletcher Pratt

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Poetry helps heal wounds.Makes them tangible.At the poetry reading I reada poem.A prophecy I wrote down. Almost couldn’t go through with it.But it came outhurried and hotand by the endmy tongue was on fire.

—Isabel Quintero

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Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

—Hélder C

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Leonard is far and away my least favorite relative, and I have no clue why I call him one night, collect, very late, and give him an involved and scrupulously fair edition of the whole...

—David Foster Wallace

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How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he’d linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total...

—Don DeLillo

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The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.

—Greg Mortenson

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When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears

—Ikechukwu Izuakor

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

—Diane Ackerman

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The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

—Courtney Love

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I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

—David LaChapelle

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Language cares.

—Howard Nemerov

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To most people, if you’re muttering, you might as well be speaking a foreign language. I should know, because in college I took two years of muttering.

—Jarod Kintz

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Il s’était tant de fois entendu dire ces choses, qu’elles n’avaient pour lui rien d’original. Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses ; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêtement,...

—Gustave Flaubert

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The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed over the years, but the common medical consensus currently has jocose, verbose, morose, bellicose, lachrymose, comatose, adios.This is a workable...

—Mark Forsyth

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His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body.

—James Lusarde

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The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a peculiar spiritual character , a special way of conceiving and apprehending. The difference between the several languages, therefore, is not...

—Ernst Cassirer

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The world is so big and words are so small!

—Marty Rubin

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Isn’t one of the first lessons of good elocution that there’s nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can’t, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing?...

—Mort W.

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to talk foreign policy in the plainest possible language with the American people, so that each and every one can understand the stake he or she has in our American foreign policy process.

—Madeline Albright

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Echo of the waves appears in the sky, their lights reflected in your eyes. I’m back in our world and happy again. The sound of your voice, compassionate embrace… The power in your touch, serenity...

—Oksana Rus

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So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

—Mary Norris

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Time is a language.

—Khalid Masood

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The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

—Nadine Labaki

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Language does this to our memories— simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft -told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

—Karen Joy

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You all right?” he said again.I didn’t love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was seeing him through a smeared window or glossy paper; he didn’t belong here. But...

—Margaret Atwood

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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

—Nelson Mandela

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You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring...

—Peter Sloterdijk

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I have a disease; I see language.

—Roland Barthes

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Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

—Tariq Ramadan

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Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.

—Thomm Quackenbush

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I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

—Steve Hackett

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English is not my first language.

—Zhu Zhu

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