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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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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

—Holly Near

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Lie, illusion, deception, she said–was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

—Cynthia Ozick

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My definition of dictionary can’t be found in the dictionary. Dictionary—A linguistic prison, confining words to well-defined cells, with little chance of parole.

—Jarod Kintz

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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life...

—Henry David Thoreau

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But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture,...

—Daniel Pennac

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The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…

—Daniel S. Fletcher

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There’s probably a word for that,” but there’s probably a word for that.

—Jarod Kintz

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Annoyance has made me bilingual.

—Gayle Forman

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For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.

—Erin Kissane

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You don’t realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when...

—Lily King

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The aim of language…is to communicate…to impart to others the results one has obtained…As I talk, I reveal the situation…I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

—David Antin

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A beautiful sentence and a beautiful sunset derive from the same source.

—Marty Rubin

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He said “cool” like I say a Spanish word when I’m not sure of the pronunciation.

—Kelley Armstrong

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I think in general I’ve never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

—Marc Anthony

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Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

—Joyce Rachelle

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All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with ‘winning or...

—Marcel Duchamp

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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

—Judith Butler

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To understand the universe, you must know the language of time.

—Khalid Masood

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More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

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The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this.

—Markus Zusak

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The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar. Lawrence speaks somewhere of drawing ‘strength from the depths of the universe’; Malcolm...

—Peter Levi

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Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

—Paul Tillich

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Companies use language that’s worked in the past, so prospectuses become bigger and bigger mountains of words,

—Roger Kubarych

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One of the characteristics of New Labour – and Miliband is irredeemably of that species – is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British...

—Martin Jacques

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The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a...

—Simon S.

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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

—Simone Weil

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My French was neither good nor bad. I had enough to understand what people said to me, but speaking was difficult, and there were times when no words came to my lips, when I struggled...

—Paul Auster

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With wine and being lost, withless and less of both:I rode through the snow, do you read meI rode God far–I rode Godnear, he sang,it wasour last ride overthe hurdled humans.They cowered whenthey heard usoverhead,...

—Paul Celan

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The way I make art – the way a lot of people make art – is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

—Shepard Fairey

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So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it...

—R. Scott

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In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of...

—Rabindranath Tagore

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Language is the archives of history.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

—Val McDermid

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First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

—Peter Ellis

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There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

—Tori Amos

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Language is the key to the heart of people.

—Ahmed Deedat

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RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives – darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by...

—Bill Bryson

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…he wonders by what process virtually any discussion about the war seems to profane these ultimate matters of life and death. As if to talk of such things properly we need a mode of speech...

—Ben Fountain

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People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

—B.R. Myers

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There is no ‘cat language.’ Painful as it is for us to admit, they don’t need one!

—Barbara Holland

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No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that’s one of its functions – so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.

—Carl Sagan

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