"The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail."
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"Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates."
"when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world."
"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."
"The word long is short, and so is the word short, but why is the word love as long as long? Shouldn’t it be longer?"
"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things."
"Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America."
"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
"Ink is drinkable and printable. The words “I love you” don’t take up much space, but they can quench your thirst forever."
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
"I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?"
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."
"لا توجد أي دولة في العالم انطلقت في المجال التكنولوجي دون الاعتماد على اللغة الأم."
"In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
"I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me."
"Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success."
"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."