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Letter "L" » Language
«When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.»
Author: James Earl Jones
| About:
Language,
Literature,
Mind,
Reading
| Keywords:
drama, dramas, human mind, sermons, Speeches
«?We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didn?t know what to think. It?s hard to think without words ?cause you haven?t got a clue as to what you?re thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a ?verbal void? - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as ?verbal void?.?»
«Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.»
«The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high»
«We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
in style, lacks, obscurities, obscurity, style, tied
«When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.»
Author: Trent Reznor
| About:
Language
«Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Culture,
Knowledge,
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, knows, know nothing, languages, languages of, of their own, Other languages, Their language, their own language
«Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Language,
Media
| Keywords:
creating, gimmick, gimmicks, languages, media, New Beginnings, new media, worlds
«Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it»
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