Quotes of: English-language Keyword

Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.

Dispelling Wetiko

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.

Everyone Burns

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

The Enchantress Of Florence

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

Euphoria

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Girl Meets God

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

Glass Houses

Fuck words, nothing spoken comprehends the defiantly ephemeral. I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile in any language.

Amigo Warfare

God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.

Bring Up the Bodies

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Bluebeard

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?

The Book of Questions

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

Barracuda

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

City of Ashes

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

Cloud Atlas

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Hans Kung