2,489 Quotes About Language
- Author Emil M. Cioran
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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- Author Kara Lee Corthron
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I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.
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- Author Ben Marcus
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The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.
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- Author Francis Marion Crawford
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Death is only a translation of life into another language.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.
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- Author Ibn Al-Nadim
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I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until two men, one of whom was called Cadmus (Qatmus) and the other Aghanūn, came from Egypt bringing sixteen letters with which the Greeks wrote. Then one of these two men derived four other letters, also used for writing. Later, another man named Simonides (Simūnidus) derived four additional ones, making twenty-four. It was in those days that Socrates (Suqrātīs) appeared
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- Author Hermann Hesse
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It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
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- Author Rebecca Solnit
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To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.
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- Author Carolina De Robertis
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But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake the world with terrifying rapidity, and they do so without moral distinction…There is a battle going on right now over the words we use, over who has the right to speak and who does not. (Katie Kitamura)
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