Quotes of: Different-language Keyword

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Christopher Dawson

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Hippocrates

If the warmth of her Language could affect the body it might be worth reading in this weather.

Jane Austen

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

John le Carre

Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.

Debasish Mridha

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Deion Sanders

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Ezra Taft Benson

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

Eiza Gonzalez

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Ben Marcus

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Ben Schott

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

Bayard Taylor

My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.

Greg Grunberg

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Gore Vidal

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.

Henry Grunwald

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

Hattie Morahan

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

Jack Spicer