Quotes of: English-language Keyword

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

Elie Wiesel

If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.

Friedrich Hebbel

You can't see other's point of view when you have only one language.

Frank Smith

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

John Coltrane

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Eugene Delacroix

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

Elfriede Jelinek

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Emma Lazarus

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

E. V. Lucas

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Ben Kingsley

... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged,

Gary Edward Gedall

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

Henry Adams

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.

Harry Knowles

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it. The Language of Soul

Harold Klemp

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

Judith Martin

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

Jodine Turner