#lang

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. ↗

— John Sladek

#alive #any #being #century #except

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#ever #god #happily #i #i believe

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. ↗

— Huston Smith

#celtic #could #language #onto #opens

You couldn't have human society without language. ↗

— John M. Smith

#human society #language #society #without #you

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#adapt #ask #capacity #child #come

Portrait: a painted picture expressing less words than a photograph, and hence more accurate. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #language #pictures #funny

I have a good ear for languages. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#good #i #languages

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#best #best way #cloak #conveys #deceive

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#condense #deal #emotions #enjoy #express

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ↗

— George Stigler

#citizens #discuss #economist #fellow #fellow citizens