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Language Quotes

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

Love Amazing World Think Language

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Leon Wieseltier

Power Language Needed Times

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

Smile Kindness Language Warm

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

Achievement Poetry Me Language Write

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Time Poetry Language Help Changing

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

People World Speak Language Place

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Language Further How Obsessed Bodies

The scripting language in Bitcoin is important because it is what makes Bitcoin 'programmable money'. Within each Bitcoin transaction is the ability to write a little program.

Money Language Important Write

I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

Love Practice Language You Play Own

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.

Respect Great People Speak Language

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

Learning Parents Language Hardships

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

Good Simple Good Things Language

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Kenneth L. Pike

Language Situation Precision Degree

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

Music Soul Think Language Human

I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.

Age Culture Think End Language Fame

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Talcott Parsons

Perception Language System Total

Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Work Mother Home Day Speak Language

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Language Wrong Equal Actions Unequal

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Ezra Taft Benson

Woman Dress Language True Modesty

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Change Faith Language Never Changes

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Alone Children Language Reach Group

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Frances Hesselbein

Leadership Practice Language Behavior

The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.

Science Me Language Way Talk Kid

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

Technology Power Language Source

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