Quotes of: English-language Keyword

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

Middlesex

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Guy Debord

For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.

Nynke Visser

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

Russell Brand

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Robert Fitzgerald

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Robert Fripp

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

Rashida Jones

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Stephen Fry

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

Soundarya

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Steven Pinker

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Theodor Adorno

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

Toni Collette

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Tibor Kalman

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

Kevin Kline

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Kenneth R. Miller

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Kenneth L. Pike

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

Karin Slaughter

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class

Lani Diane Rich

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Lily Tomlin