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Quotes about Language

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Quotes about Language

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We are not the masters of language, but the language is our master.

Author: Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 9.06 | Fav

I didn't want to do poetry, but language.

Author: Angela Marinescu (1941) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is no language as Latin as our language!

Author: Dumitru Staniloae (1903 - 1993) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 9.67 | Fav

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Author: John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Author: Louise Bogan (1897 - 1970) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 25 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Author: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 238 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The German language is the organ among the languages.

Author: Jean Paul (1763 - 1825) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 41 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900 - 2002) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 51 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Nothing exists except through language.

Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900 - 2002) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 38 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Author: Russell Hoban (1925) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 57 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

Author: Radclyffe Hall (1880 - 1943) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 346 | Rank: 9.10 | Fav

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Author: Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 74 | Rank: 0 | Fav

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Author: Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Languages are true analytical methods.

Author: Antoine Lavoisier (1743 - 1794) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 525 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that...

Author: June Jordan (1936-2002) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 89 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Language, through its signs, that are words and the sounds that make them are different depending on the way a certain phenomenon is perceived, on its role et on how much importance he is given.

Author: Sorin Cerin (1963) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Author: George Herbert (1593 - 1633) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Author: Talcott Parsons (1902 - 1979) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I think it's about body language it's about convincing people they should be comfortable with you.

Author: Michael Parkinson (1935) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Language is the book of nobility of a nation.

Author: Vasile Alecsandri (1821 - 1890) | Theme: Language | Clicks: 2179 | Rank: 8.53 | Fav
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