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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense a way of concealing motives and thoughts as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

It's like there are all these languages available especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

By and large language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I mean language fascinates me anyway and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw hear what you heard feel what you felt. Relevant detail couched in concrete colorful language is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family living in the country leading an idyllic life.

Music as many people have said is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction but in a very general way as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for language.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development a record of Experience whose legitimate office is to perfect the life a legible language to those who will study it of the majestic mistress the soul.

Certain kinds of speed flow intensity density of attacks density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is I think easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude a common language.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women certain attitudes toward sex certain attitudes toward race etc.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

I met my grandfather just before he died and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

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