Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Jessye Norman

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Marilyn vos Savant

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Bram Cohen

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Thomas Carlyle

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Thom Gunn

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Gwendolyn Brooks

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Shari Arison

The more people that learn sign language, the better. This is part of my life, but it's not part of everybody's life, so it's nice to expose this to the world.

Sean Berdy

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life.

Saul Zaentz

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Tina Weymouth

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Preston Manning

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Flora Lewis

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

Hank Johnson

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Elif Safak

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

Francois Hollande

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Criss Jami

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude Levi-Strauss

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

Cote de Pablo

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Herb Ritts