#language

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#humour #language #intelligence

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. ↗

— William Golding

#fits #language #like #over

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#emotional #food #individual #kindness #language

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#after #age #country #emerges #how

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#i #i think #identify #language #literature

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

— Roger Babson

#finest #language #nothing #often #saying

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#language-of-art #signs #art

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

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