#language

The reason it’s hard for men to say “I love you” is because those three words represent 10% of the average man’s vocabulary. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#language #love #men #reason #vocabulary

I speak the language of love. That’s right, I speak Russian. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#language-of-love #love #russian #love

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #language #humor

It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#love #love

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#language #dreams

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. ↗

— George Crane

#life #public #life

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#liberty #marks #people #preserves #while

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#language #change

Când ne deschidem tu mie şi eu ţie, când ne scufundăm tu în mine şi eu în tine, când ne pierdem tu în mine şi eu în tine, Abia atunci eu sunt eu şi tu eşti tu. ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#love #poetry #romanian-language #inspirational

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. ↗

— Rumi

#power-of-words #remaining-silent #words