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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Deborah Bull

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Robert Morgan

Faith is more basic than language or theology.
Sydney Carter

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Bela Lugosi

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
Max von Sydow

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
Edward Sapir

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Judy Chicago

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
Marcel Carne

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
Wilfred Owen

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
Ella Maillart

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
Jim Clark

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Christopher Lasch

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
Henri Bergson

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
Robert Morgan

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