"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."

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"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Language, Humor, Culture, Confusion

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Language, Practice

"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

John Astin, American Actor

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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."

Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist

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"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

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"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."

Robert Fitzgerald, American Author

Language, Eloquence, English, Fact, Vocabulary

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Language, Meaning, Earth, Heaven

"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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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, American Poet

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."

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"In oratory the will must predominate."

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"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

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"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."

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"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."

"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."

"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."

"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

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

"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."

"In oratory the will must predominate."

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."

"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."

"Children always turn to the light."

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

"No one but a fool is always right."