Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

Jack Spicer

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Daniel Alarcon

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

David Antin

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

David Crystal

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Daniel Dennett

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

Domenico Dolce

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Deborah Kass

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Jacques Derrida

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Jacques Lacan

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

Joe Lando

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

Tom Stoppard

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Don DeLillo

Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

The English Patient

David Whitaker: Aw, geez! Cathy Whitaker: We don't use language like that in this house.

Far from Heaven

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Edward Tufte

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Rudolf Steiner