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Tag Name "Language" (4177)

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Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828
Anne Sullivan Macy
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Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.
Nate Lowman
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Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.
Nicole Brossard
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Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from useful doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
Ada Limon
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Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away.
Kory Stamper
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Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.
Alice McDermott
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter
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Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
Mark Hopkins
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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
Adrienne Rich
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
Adrienne Rich
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
Iris Murdoch
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Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.
Rosalie Maggio
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Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
Irving Howe
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Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Charles Scribner IV
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
William Golding
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphry Davy
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Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
Steven Pinker
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Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs
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Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
Vanna Bonta
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Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects in their films, but in every film that I've made, I've maintained the regional dialects of the characters because I wanted to make films that were locally specific.
Jia Zhangke
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Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.
Stephen King
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Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.
Charles A. Didier
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Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
Charlton Laird
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