Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

will.i.am

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Interesting Times: The Play

Language is not the barrier, the heart is". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

My Mother: Demonology

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

The Last Camellia

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Love's Labour's Lost

...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

The Merlin Conspiracy

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

Theft of Swords

kisses... are and always will be the only language that I will have ever truly known.

A touch, a tear, a tempest

I speak the language of love. That’s right, I speak Russian.

This Book Has No Title

Gratitude is the heart's first language.

When Your Heart Breaks, It's Opening to Love

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

Thought and Language

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

Henri Matisse

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

Neville Marriner

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

Penelope Keith

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Peter Mayhew

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Roman Jakobson

if music was the language of the world, imagine how beautiful a seven-billion-part harmony would be.

scott hoying