Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

Jerry Scott

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

Roy Horn

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

Frank Luntz

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Ray Charles

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Simon Le Bon

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Aubrey Beardsley

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Art is my second world, second soul and second language.

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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

William Gibson

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

William Strunk, Jr.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Loretta Lynn

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children d...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to le...

The Golden Theme: How to Make Your Writing Appeal to the Highest Common Denominator

When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you don't work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookis...

Books v. Cigarettes

The quality common to the three experiences... is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasu...

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it it very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that ...

Pride and Prejudice

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with g...

Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues