Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Summer Rain

If you strip away my flowery language, you’ll figure out I’m really talking about bees.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Politics and the English Language

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Public Opinion

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper? MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

Pygmalion

Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.

Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

There should be a language called Nail, so I could more naturally say, “My nail is a bit rusty.

This Book Has No Title

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Under Western Eyes

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

Windmills of the Gods

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

A Wrinkle in Time

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

Year of the King: An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story g...

Donald E. Westlake

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

Frank Luntz

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by t...

George Saintsbury

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterp...

Louise Gluck

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

A. S. Byatt

Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary

Gerald Edelman

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

Jimmy Wales

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

Penelope Keith

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Paul de Man