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Quotes About Language

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.
~ Jack Thorne
I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.
~ Shweta Tripathi
I always tell young journalists to leverage what you have. If you have a particular language skill or access to a particular place or culture in a way that others don't, that's your advantage.
~ Mariana van Zeller
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
~ Julian Assange
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
~ Jeremy Lin
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
~ Yuri Milner
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.
~ Erich Fromm
Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.
~ Louise Closser Hale
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
~ Madame de Stael
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe
~ Margaret Haddix
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
~ George Steiner
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
~ Samuel Richardson
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
~ Michael Pollan
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
~ Robert Morgan
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'
~ Ben Weaver
Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu." "What does that mean?" Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.
~ Cassandra Clare
Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.
~ Charles A. Didier
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
~ Charles Simic
Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.
~ Holly Black
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?
~ Jane Austen
No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan