Quotes of: Different-language Keyword

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

Alma Guillermoprieto

I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.

Matthew Moy

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Conrad Hall

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

Glenn Beck

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Howard Shore

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

James Martineau

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

Spike Jonze

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Tony Stark: Shit! Steve Rogers: Language.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Angela Carter

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Alexandre Dumas

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

Timothy West

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today.

Xinxin Ming

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Yakov Smirnoff

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

I did not see Pirahã teenagers moping, sleeping in late, refusing to accept responsibility for their own actions, or trying out what they considered to be radically new approaches to life. They in fact are highly productive and conformist members of...

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides h...

Indiana

As we have seen, French culture and language interacted with native English culture for several generations after the Norman Conquest. A common word such as 'castle' is a French loan word, for example; and the whole romance tradition comes from the F...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland