Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

Jesse Jackson

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Ellen Page

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

George Bancroft

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas Huxley

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Amit Abraham

what risk to a common man is an opportunity for a wise

Life

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Have common sense and stick to the point.

W. Somerset Maugham

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

James Reston

…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Both noble and common blood are the same color.

German

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Herb Alpert

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light—grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

The Rehearsal

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

Ferdinand de Saussure

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.

Guido van Rossum

My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.

Judah Friedlander

Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed?

Anthony North

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a ...

Jeanette Winterson