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  • Language is wine upon the lips. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Language is the dress of thought. -- Samuel Johnson
  • A riot is the language of the unheard. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. -- Dan Brown
  • A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. -- William Arthur Ward
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -- Mark Twain
  • If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Language disguises thought. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Language is fossil Poetry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Language changes very fast. -- John Maynard Smith
  • Language is always evolving. -- Erik Qualman
  • Language is a living thing -- Gilbert Highet
  • Language is a social event. -- Richard Rodriguez
  • Language is the only homeland. -- Czeslaw Milosz
  • Language always gives you away. -- George Carlin
  • Language is memory and metaphor. -- Storm Jameson
  • Language is a social art. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Language cannot say everything, fortunately. -- Mason Cooley
  • Language is the archives of history. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Language was invented to ask questions. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Language betrays, in order to mean. -- Terence McKenna
  • Language is the source of misunderstandings. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Language is the best, best toy. -- Jerry Holkins
  • Language does our thinking for us. -- Kenneth Burke
  • Language is butchered by the media -- Don Watson
  • Language buries, but does not resurrect. -- John Green
  • Music is indeed the Universal Language. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
  • Language usage always has a political context. -- Jackson Katz
  • Language makes infinite use of finite media. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Language is what stops the heart exploding. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. -- William Golding
  • Language transcends us and yet we speak. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Language is a machine for making falsehoods. -- Iris Murdoch
  • Language is a form of organized stutter. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Language is the machine of the poet. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • Language is the medium of our thoughts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Language can do what it can't say. -- William Stafford
  • Language is the tool of the tools -- Lev S. Vygotsky
  • Language does not make one an elite. -- Irrfan Khan
  • Language is a weapon, keep it honed! -- Kurt Tucholsky
  • Language is a virus from outer space. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Language is also a place of struggle. -- bell hooks
  • Language is the light of the mind -- John Stuart Mill
  • Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. -- Mark Hopkins
  • Language is an old-growth forest of the mind. -- Wade Davis
  • Language helps form the limits of our reality. -- Dale Spender
  • Language is a finding-place not a hiding place. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities. -- Gunnar Myrdal
  • Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • Language is a nice way to remember things. -- Erin McKean
  • Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. -- Gregory Bateson
  • Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear. -- Nicole Brossard
  • Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. -- Karl Kraus
  • Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. -- Kató Lomb
  • Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. -- Max Muller
  • Language is by its very nature a communal thing... -- T. E. Hulme
  • Language is much closer to film than painting is. -- Sergei Eisenstein
  • Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease. -- Jonathan Barnbrook
  • Language is the key to the heart of people. -- Ahmed Deedat
  • Language uses us as much as we use language. -- Robin Lakoff
  • Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant. -- Martha Ronk
  • Language is the house of the truth of Being. -- Martin Heidegger
  • Language was not given to man: he seized it. -- Louis Aragon
  • Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • Language is a very difficult thing to put into words. -- Voltaire
  • I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language. -- Sean Berdy
  • Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. -- Ben Jonson
  • Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. -- William Gibson
  • Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
  • There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. -- Dale Carnegie
  • Body language has no translation." -- Ljupka Cvetanova
  • High thoughts must have high language. -- Aristophanes
  • Coffee is a language in itself. -- Jackie Chan
  • I had to know at least two languages. -- Novak Djokovic
  • A mind enclosed in language is in prison. -- Simone Weil
  • The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The world's most famous and popular language is music. -- Psy
  • Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. -- Herbie Hancock
  • But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -- George Orwell
  • The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. -- Martha Graham
  • Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. -- Lytton Strachey
  • When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it. -- Billy Sunday
  • Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -- Robert Benchley
  • Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. -- Conrad Hall
  • We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. -- Abigail Adams
  • I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. -- David LaChapelle
  • Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. -- Gaston Bachelard
  • Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. -- Franklin P. Jones
  • Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language. -- Erez Lieberman Aiden
  • Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 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
  • A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. -- Christian Louboutin
  • Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. -- Walt Disney
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. -- John Wesley Powell
  • I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries. -- Jandy Nelson
  • Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things. -- Tom Wlaschiha
  • There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything. -- Maria Montessori
  • We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. -- Joseph Roux
  • Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it. -- Scott Weiland
  • The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. -- Maya Angelou
  • In language clarity is everything. -- Confucius
  • Every language has its own music. -- Sid Caesar
  • Conduct is more convincing than language. -- John Woolman
  • There is no language without deceit. -- Italo Calvino
  • The language that reveals also obscures. -- Wendell Berry
  • The language of nature is silence. -- Bryant McGill
  • You couldn't have human society without language. -- John Maynard Smith
  • Great men, like nature, use simple language. -- Luc de Clapiers
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