Home » Language Language 1 In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. Victor Hugo Great, Poetry, Language Add to Collection 2 A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr Language, Riot, Unheard Add to Collection 3 Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats Wise, Man, Language Add to Collection 4 A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward Smile, Kindness, Language Add to Collection 5 Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information. Isabel Allende Language, Information Add to Collection 6 From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there. Isabel Allende Work, Time, Language Add to Collection 7 Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. Walt Whitman Time, Growth, Language Add to Collection 8 Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. Walt Disney Communication, Language Add to Collection 9 Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. Walt Disney Job, Language, Animals Add to Collection 10 Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger Man, Language, Fact Add to Collection 11 Language is the house of the truth of Being. Martin Heidegger Truth, Language, House Add to Collection 12 The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Martin Heidegger Language, Speak, Others Add to Collection 13 Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. Theodor Adorno Words, Language, Hunger Add to Collection 14 History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno History, Language, Touch Add to Collection 15 Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain Kindness, Language, Blind Add to Collection