Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

The Dream of a Common Language

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all pe...

Keith Haring

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother ton...

Louis D. Brandeis

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we...

Abbas Kiarostami

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Ethan Zuckerman

Whereas once medieval Europe had adhered to a common Catholic religion, a common Latin language, and common well-spiced cuisine (at least, for the elite), the balkanization of the Christian world along national lines now meant that nations could no l...

Michael Krondl

The common language shared by every one in this world is the cry which only our mothers understood

Gopichand Lagadapati

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make eve...

Eugene H. Peterson

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

Ai Weiwei

He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, Miss Woolf said, a common language was a wonderful ...

Kate Atkinson

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

The Canterville Ghost

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Hilaire Belloc

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

George Santayana

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Gore Vidal

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

Thomas Hulme

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Christopher Lasch

Common sense is not so common.

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