Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears

Ikechukwu Izuakor

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

I. King Jordan

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Jimmy Breslin

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Joseph Brodsky

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

Elizabeth George

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Hoffer

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Bernard Pivot

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carol P. Christ

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

George Steiner

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Howard Hodgkin

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

John O'Donohue

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

Joyce Rachelle

There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.

Jodi Sky Rogers

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Jay Samit

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Dominic Chianese

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Douglas Hyde

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

David LaChapelle

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Denis Lavant

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

David Mitchell