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«Language is clumsy, understanding is subjective, religion is obstructive. We must rise above these obstacles to achieve complete being.»
«I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out»
Author: Katherine Dunn
| About:
Language,
Words
| Keywords:
and others, believer, discovered, early, magic, The Magic
«I speak two languages, Body and English.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| About:
Funny,
Language
| Keywords:
body language, English, languages, spoken language
«I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.»
«I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Language,
Lies,
Love,
Luxury,
Vulgarity,
Words
| Keywords:
luxury, ornateness, richness, ugliest, vulgarity
«I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.»
Author: Tom Lehrer
(Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
communicating, shut up
«I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Language,
War
| Keywords:
atomic, impel, impelled, impelling, impels, in a sense, new one, preferred, The Military, warfare
«I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
dictionary, ordinary language, Sanskrit
«I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Language,
Learning
| Keywords:
bought, Spanish, stuck, stutter, stuttering, the next day
«Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.»
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