Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

There is a single truth, it filters through different stories and languages because people come from different cultures and speak different languages. And this truth has manifested itself through millennia, in multiple ways. Different people belong t...

C. JoyBell C.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'—that he embedded in our language and in our minds. In Orwell's own min...

Christopher Hitchens

The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses ‘the means at hand,’ that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for wh...

Jacques Derrida

It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it literally unreal--with pictures of its satisfactio...

Adam Phillips

Paris and Helen He called her: golden dawn She called him: the wind whistles He called her: heart of the sky She called him: message bringer He called her: mother of pearl barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-make...

The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

Coma House

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Crome Yellow

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

The Diary of a Young Girl

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Dune Messiah

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Dictation: A Quartet

She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.

Daytripper

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.

The Elements of Content Strategy

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together

First Step 2 Forever

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Four Quartets

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

Finnikin of the Rock

...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...

A Familiar Rain

... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...

A Familiar Rain

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

There are so many words in our language; we get to know so few of them.

Boy Meets Boy