Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Citations: A Brief Anthology

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Helen Dunmore

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Katherine Dunn

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Edward Sapir

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Ivan Turgenev

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.

Michael Nutter

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Peter Zumthor

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.

Susanna Phillips

Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.

The Alchemist

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

According to the Rolling Stones

All language is an aspiration to music.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

A werewolf.” He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.

Shadow's Embrace

the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

Shiver

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon - Volume 1

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

The Sandman: Endless Nights

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Speedboat