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Tag Name "Language" (4504)

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There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.
Anne Waldman
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I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.
Tyler Oakley
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Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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I like you your eyes are full of language. [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
Anne Sexton
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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Anne Sexton
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The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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As humans we speak one language.
Avril Lavigne
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I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
Ulysses S. Grant
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If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language
Stewart Lee
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I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
Umberto Eco
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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Anne Rice
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
David Mitchell
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Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.
Joseph Fielding Smith
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Karl Kraus
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I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
Umberto Eco
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Umberto Eco
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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.
Judith Butler
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.
Keegan-Michael Key
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