Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles,
slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.
--Eric Bentley American author and educator.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
--George Orwell
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language.
That may be the measure of our lives.
--Toni Morrison
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible,
the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, h
ere you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories,
and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...
--Israel Zangwill The Melting Pot
We live at the level of our language.
Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore.
All you have to do to educate a child is leave them alone and teach them to read.
The rest is brainwashing.
--Ellen Gilcrist
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body
--Martha Graham (1894-1994) US dancer, choreographer
Kindness: a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
--Unknown
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
--Robert Benchley
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone.
It has created the word, loneliness to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word, solitude to express the glory of being alone
--Paul Tillich
There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!
--Barbara Holland
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