Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

He could look into your eyes and without saying a word assure you that you were the most fascinating woman in the world and call you beautiful in six languages.

Meant to be Mine

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don’t believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!

The Lava in My Bones

I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.

Last Last Chance

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Long Walk to Freedom

Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.

Les Misérables, tome I/3

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Leonardo and the Last Supper

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

Six Memos For The Next Millennium

I’d like to write gibberish in Latin, because if people aren’t going to be able to read it, they might as well not read it in a dead language.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

Sister

If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a object. in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'.

Studies in Words

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Thinking Skills - Using Your Brain in the Information Age

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Om Chanting and Meditation

Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.

The Oathbound

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty.

Patches Of Grey

The citizens of Ludania would finally be free, no longer forced into a class system that determined what language they could speak, what jobs they could do, or who they could be

The Pledge

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

Politics and the English Language

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

The People's Act of Love

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower