Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a ha...

Steven Weber

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

Anthony Bourdain

Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.

Zack W. Van

Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here simply because the gods must adore crime. Pickpockets rob the common folk, merchants rob anyone they can dupe, Capa Barsavi...

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of...

Stephen Fry

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

James Lovelock

Negative thinking will not produce positive changes - ever.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

To know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God.

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

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

False Positives: A Techno Thriller

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

1984

Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my name included.

Afterimage

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Killosophy

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

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

I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.

The Language of Flowers

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

The Language of Flowers

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

A Language Older Than Words

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Philosophical Investigations