Language Quotes - Page 15
Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA
John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.101, Boston : J.R. Osgood
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.118, Collector's Library
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”
Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”
Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 97
We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
William Saroyan (2013). “My Name Is Aram”, p.38, Courier Corporation
William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
"Poets at Work" by W. H. Auden, (p. 170), 1948.
"Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 5, March 29, 2001.
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.3, Ballantine Books
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
Sophocles, Ezra Pound, Rudd Fleming, Carey Perloff (1990). “Elektra”, p.17, New Directions Publishing