Quotes of: Different-language Keyword

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

The language of love is unspoken. It is a feeling, an acknowledgment, and acceptance of not only our human frailties, but our divine eminence.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of cha...

Christian Bale

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individ...

Arundhati Roy

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken ...

Jerry Saltz

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

Josh Gad

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as ...

Antony Gormley

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

The 4-Hour Workweek

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

About This Life

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Honey and Salt

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

The Innocents Abroad

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I have no native tongue.

Invisible Monsters

The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled word, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.

Journey to Armenia

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Requiem

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

Ru