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I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay. -- Dominic Monaghan
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. -- Diane Ackerman
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. -- Phil Knight
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. -- Judith Wright
There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun. -- Shia LaBeouf
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. -- Paul Engle
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. -- Yael Naim
Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information. -- Isabel Allende
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life. -- Dinaw Mengestu
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions. -- Yanni
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument. -- William Morris Hunt
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way. -- Rebecca Solnit
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. -- Anne Stevenson
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words to feel their pain. -- Julia Roberts
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. -- Eric Hoffer
Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment. -- Alan Finger
I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language. -- Werner Herzog
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. -- Amy Tan
Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language. -- David Attenborough
The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love. -- Mark Hoppus
I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language. -- Will Smith
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them... -- Oscar Wilde
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. -- Lydia Davis
Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar. -- Elise Valmorbida

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