#language

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. ↗

— Alison Lurie

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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice. ↗

— James Merrill

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I want to learn the language of the sun, and burn Agatha’s eyes out with my love poems. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#language #poem #funny

Metaphor is embodied in language. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#language #metaphor

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#best #bombay #different #even #experiences