Language Quotes
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really.
BalthusBalthus Speech is the best show a man puts on.
Benjamin Lee WhorfBenjamin Lee Whorf Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Bela LugosiBela Lugosi When I’m drafting right to life language, I don’t call up the nuns.
Bart StupakBart Stupak Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
Benjamin HoffBenjamin Hoff Our language for describing emotions is very crude… that’s what music is for, I guess.
Ben GoertzelBen Goertzel Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers.
Ben GibbardBen Gibbard I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can’t understand each other. It’s also usually my experience of being in America – when I speak no one can understand what I’m saying.
Ben WheatleyBen Wheatley We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
Benjamin Lee WhorfBenjamin Lee Whorf We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
Bernard MalamudBernard Malamud German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
Bernard BerensonBernard Berenson Music is a great energizer. It’s a language everybody knows.
Bill HicksBill Hicks A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
Ben MarcusBen Marcus Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.
Bill HaydenBill Hayden RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of.
Ben MarcusBen Marcus The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms – the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.
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