Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

Will Oldham

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Artur Davis

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Alfred Day Hershey

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

Avigdor Lieberman

Kindness is the language we all can speak, even the deaf can hear it and the blind can see it...

Anomnous

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

Anne Rice

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.

Vinnie Jones

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Vladimir Putin

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

W.H. Auden

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

Wade Davis

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Wen Jiabao

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Walter Kirn

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

Zia Haider Rahman

I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

Arthur Penn

I'd appreciate a phone call before you try to break into my office again-Matthew Carter

Common Descent

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

The Communist Manifesto

The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.

A Clockwork Orange

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

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