Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

Lorrie Moore

we understand our language.it is normal.when we understand other's language -that's proper communication.

lity munshi

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Leo Ornstein

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

Leon Redbone

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Mason Cooley

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

Martin Jacques

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

Sid Caesar

Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.

Marty Rubin

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

Marcus Samuelsson

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

Nicola Griffith

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Ella Maillart

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Sid Bernstein

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

Bridgit Mendler

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Abraham Maslow

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Leonard Mlodinow

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Alan Rickman

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Nawal El Saadawi

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

Steven Pinker

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Juliet Stevenson

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Rick Renzi