Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

John Hume

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Ernest Istook

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Arnold Bennett

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Tomas Transtromer

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Wilfrid Laurier

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Zoe Wanamaker

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanat...

Shantaram

You must answer the devil in his own language.

Indian

To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off appears merry and playful; but to say one goes on vacation is to speak the language of the ruling class. comes from the same root as and reflects wha...

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)

Living in Supreme Influence, your language is neutral and/or moving toward your vision rather than moving away. In other words, you speak about what you do want, not about what you don't want.

Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me about that is we’re talking about an art form in which your medium is language. It’s almost a paradox that you�...

Stuart Dybek

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train.

The Five Love Languages of Children

Eyes speak the best of the body language.

Just the Way I Feel

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

The Secret Language of Girls

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Sing You Home

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

Joey Lawsin

'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

Raymond Arroyo