660 Quotations with Lang.
- 221. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is ...

- 222. William Lyon Phelps: God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the oce ...

- 223. Denis Diderot: Good music is very close to primitive language.

- 224. Ezra Pound: Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it ...

- 225. Rosenstock Huessy: Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Gr ...

- 226. Ezra Pound: Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible ...

- 227. Bob Kali: Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, b ...

- 228. Andrew Lang: He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illu ...

- 229. Benjamin Franklin: He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that ...

- 230. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

- 231. Oscar Wilde: His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastere ...

- 232. Langston Hughes: Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot ...

- 233. Author Unknown: How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks ...

- 234. Alfred North Whitehead: Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for ...

- 235. Langston Hughes: Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

- 236. Virginia Woolf: Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

- 237. Samuel Johnson: I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees ...

- 238. Frantz Fanon: I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be ...

- 239. George Bernard Shaw: I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the ...

- 240. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, governme ...

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