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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
Dee Hock

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Cesar Chavez

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Emmet Fox

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
Werner Heisenberg

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Franklin P. Jones

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