Quotes of: English-language Keyword

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

Bat for Lashes

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

Eva Green

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

James D. Watson

Almásy: How can you ever smile, as if your life hadn't capsized?

The English Patient

You must answer the devil in his own language.

Indian

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdl...

The Kingdom by the Sea

Gareth Peirce: It's not the stairs that are killing your father. Gerry Conlon: Aye, what is it then? Gareth Peirce: It's your lack of faith. Gerry Conlon: Lack of faith? Faith in what? Gareth Peirce: In yourself. Gerry Conlon: No. I have faith in mys...

In the Name of the Father

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)

Living in Supreme Influence, your language is neutral and/or moving toward your vision rather than moving away. In other words, you speak about what you do want, not about what you don't want.

Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me about that is we’re talking about an art form in which your medium is language. It’s almost a paradox that you�...

Stuart Dybek

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train.

The Five Love Languages of Children

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jimmy Carter

Eyes speak the best of the body language.

Just the Way I Feel

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

The Secret Language of Girls

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Sing You Home

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

Joey Lawsin

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

Robert Kelly

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Thornton Wilder

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Michael Gove