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Letter "L" » Language
«Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language»
Author: Henry James
| About:
Beauty,
Language,
Words
| Keywords:
afternoon, English, English language, summer, summers, the English
«Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere»
«There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Art,
Language
| Keywords:
acquire, brief, For some, in brief, observation, plain, plain language, record
«Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Language,
Television,
Women
| Keywords:
acclaim, acclaimed, last-place, rhapsodically, stamping, stamping ground
«Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work»
«Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Language,
Mathematics,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
mathematical, symbols
«Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.»
«That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.»
«The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.»
«The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.»
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