Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osler

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

Surprised by Hope

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Over the water of time I call to you In a language I do not know.

Skinny-Dipping with the Muse

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost

Second Sight

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Paris to the Moon

We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing.

That Hideous Strength

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

Middlesex

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Guy Debord

For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.

Nynke Visser

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

Russell Brand

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Robert Fitzgerald

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Robert Fripp

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Roald Hoffmann

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

Rashida Jones

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Stephen Fry

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

Soundarya

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Steven Pinker

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Theodor Adorno