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Laughter is the language of the heart

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Manufactured meaning has already been implanted in the unconscious through language and subliminal messages. This is why it is not wise to trust or believe our thoughts/words or the meanings. We intuitively know what is true and false and all that is needed to be known in each moment.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.