Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
