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• Language is like drinking from one’s own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

  Simon Van Booy

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• Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere

  James Martineau

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Poetry, Prayer, Language

• Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language is governed by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

  Simon Van Booy

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• A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

  Talcott Parsons

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• Your language indicates and limits what you think.

  Jonathan Price

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Humor

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• I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum’s from Naples and my dad’s from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

  Luke Pasqualino

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  Tags in Italian, Language

• Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

  Jasper Fforde

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• If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

  Michael J. Sullivan

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• A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

  Wade Davis

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• Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

  Muriel Barbery

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• Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you’re not happy. And you don’t really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don’t think you really need to be explicit.

  Tom Hooper

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• Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

  Siri Hustvedt

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• Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

  Siri Hustvedt

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• English was such a strange language expressive in so may way, but so bland in others.

  Farahad Zama

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• If you want to know what’s important to a culture, learn their language.

  Joanne Harris

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• We can only think in a language that we master.

  José Luis Ruiz

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• Smiles are the language of love.

  David Hare

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• When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don’t want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

  Daniel Handler

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  Tags in Language, Running