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Language Quotes

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Charles Baudelaire

Sad Man Religion Language Better

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

Love Language American Know Way How

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Light Language Speech Understood

I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.

Alice McDermott

Love Music Language Circumstances

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Friendship Relationship Language Any

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Jacques Derrida

Language Soon Scene Entered

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

Learning Brain Language Result You

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

Saying Language Devil Cancer English

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

Love Today Language Sometimes Why

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

Martin Chemnitz

I Am Language Better Attention Human

Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style.

Style Focus Writing Black Language

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Past Language Cheerful In The Past

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Myself Decision Language Doing Poet

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

People Language Gay Race Secret

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

People Language View You Understand

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

Anger Language Violence Movement

I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

Memory Language Learn I Can Minutes

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

Truth Myself Eye Think Language

The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

Language Someone Questions Through

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Language Metaphor Embodied

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Language Riot Unheard

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

People Language Important Duty Whose

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

Jodelle Ferland

Words Yourself Language You Body

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Laughter Language Connection Same

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