Quotes with language

Quotes 281 till 300 of 314.

  • Oscar Wilde We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Adrienne Rich We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alonzo Church Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Bryn Terfel Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • John Donne When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bruno Tonioli When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • C. K. Williams When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bret Harte Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
    The Heathen Chinee (1870)
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Carolyn Maloney While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bodhidharma Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Antonin Artaud With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Carol Shields Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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