Language Quotes

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Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven`t you?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Arthur Koestler

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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Barbara Walters

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What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Charles Babbage

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- What`s the nice word for selfish?
- Independent.

How I Met Your Mother (movie)

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.

Wade Davis

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Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.

Steven Pinker

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