Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Horace

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Emily Greene Balch

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Greg Graffin

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

John Mortimer

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

Fred L. Turner

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

H. L. Mencken

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

Amit Kalantri

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

Amit Kalantri

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

Wazim Shaw

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

Delta of Venus

The first prerequisite for fine literature is that the writer must see the language not as a transparent medium for self-expression or the representation of reality, but as a medium one must struggle with to make it do one's bidding.

The Fall of Language in the Age of English

God did not give us the gospel to convince humanity; the gospel was given to us to master the language of a new world called God's Paradise. John 15:16.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse wit...

The German Ideology

There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.

Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning

Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today’s heritage and our new compositions to the future.

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief