Top Language Quotes
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
Giraldus Cambrensis
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney 
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We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams
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Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
Robert Smithson
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Sergei Eisenstein
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis
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The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
Jim Clark
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev
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Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
Peter Agre
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My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
Howard Hodgkin
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