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«True creativity often starts where language ends.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
| Keywords:
creativity, ends, language, languages of, Other languages, Their language
«Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets»
Author: Eddy Peters
| About:
Language,
Words
| Keywords:
alleys, borrow, chases, English, English language, Head down, hits, languages, Other languages, pockets, the English
«Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.»
Author: Lou Rawls
| Keywords:
communication, language, languages of, Other languages, singing, Their language
«Music is the soul of language.»
Author: Max Heindel
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
language, languages of, music, Other languages, Their language
«We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.»
Author: Booker T. Washington
| Keywords:
alleyway, alleyways, beat down, borrow, languages, occasion, on occasion, Other languages, pockets, pursued, rifle, rifled, rifles, unconscious
«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
«Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
abolishes, abolishing, bringing, language, languages of, music, opens, open secret, Other languages, peace, secret, spirit, strife, Their language, The Secret
«In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Did, French, idiots, language, languages of, making, never, Other languages, own, Paris, simply, speaking in, speaks in, speak up, spoke, spoken language, stared, stares, succeed, their, Their language, their own language, Them, they, The Idiot, those, understand, when
«Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Kindness
| Keywords:
and the, blind, blinder, blinding, deaf, deaf to, hear, hear out, is a, kindness, kindnesses, language, languages of, Other languages, see, Their language, The Blind
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