Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate.

Jim Drain

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

John M. Ford

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Joanne Harris

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Jamie L. Harding

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.

Joel Kinnaman

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

Analeigh Tipton

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Miguel de Icaza

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

Sophie Marceau

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Ferdinand de Saussure

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Edwin Morgan

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Carl Sandburg

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Phil Knight

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Dana Spiotta

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Nancy Pearcey

Tony Stark: And for gosh's sake, watch your language!

Avengers: Age of Ultron

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Tom Robbins

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Antonin Artaud

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Andrea Dworkin

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Ani DiFranco