Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken ...

Jerry Saltz

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

Josh Gad

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as ...

Antony Gormley

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to ol...

Nick Clegg

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

The 4-Hour Workweek

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

About This Life

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Honey and Salt

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

The Innocents Abroad

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I have no native tongue.

Invisible Monsters

The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled word, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.

Journey to Armenia

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Requiem

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

Ru

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

The Sorrows of an American

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

The Sorrows of an American

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Sexing the Cherry

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture

I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

Murder on the Orient Express