As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.
A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
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.
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
The most important things are the hardest to say
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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