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I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

George Carlin
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Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that. by Glenn Close

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

Glenn Close
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Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

Glenn Ligon
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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Gautama Buddha
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Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

George Orwell
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The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language. by George W. Bush

The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.

George W. Bush
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My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

George Carlin
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks. by George Eliot

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

George Eliot
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Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

Godfrey Higgins
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So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Godfrey Reggio
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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misund... by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

Godfrey Reggio
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Language always gives you away. by George Carlin

Language always gives you away.

George Carlin
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Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always scre... by Glenn Beck

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

Glenn Beck
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Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace.... by Gordon B. Hinckley

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

Gordon B. Hinckley
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Gore Vidal
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I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I... by Gough Whitlam

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

Gough Whitlam
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For prayer is the language of the heart. by Grace Aguilar

For prayer is the language of the heart.

Grace Aguilar
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That is not good language which all understand not. by George Herbert

That is not good language which all understand not.

George Herbert
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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy t... by Friedrich Nietzsche

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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