Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

Nicholas Lea

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

Carey Williams

Music is the language of the universe; everyone understands it without any word.

Debasish Mridha

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

Bayard Taylor

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Tina Ambani

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Nelly Sachs

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

Odette Annable

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

John McWhorter

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

Stephen Stills

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

Alexander Henry

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Byron White

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Humphry Davy

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

Mos Def

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Eric Allin Cornell

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Gates McFadden

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Cyndi Lauper

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

J. L. Austin