Quotes with language

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  • Roland Barthes Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • William S. Burroughs Language is a virus from outer space.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Kelly Fordyce Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
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  • Russell Hoban Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Salman Rushdie Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
    The Satanic Verses
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is fossil poetry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Roland Barthes Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Humphrey Davy Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
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  • Samuel Johnson Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George W. Crane Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
    George W. Crane
    American psychologist and physician
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is the archives of history.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson Language is the dress of thought.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Karl Kraus Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Johnson Language is the pedigree of nations.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Max Muller Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
    Max Muller
    British-German orientalist and philologist (1823 - 1900)
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  • Virginia Woolf Language is wine upon the lips.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • George Orwell Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Lee Whorf Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
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