Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

The Titan's Curse

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

The Queen of the Damned

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

Reservation Blues

Learn to say “please” and “thank you” in multiple languages.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

Welcome to Braggsville

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

The White Tiger

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

The Waves

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Irvine Welsh

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

Kerry Washington

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

Larry Ellison

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

Raymond Burr

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

Gloria Estefan

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Naguib Mahfouz

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

Orlando Bloom

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.

Octavio Paz

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

P.D.Q. Bach

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

Peter Ellis