Quotes of: English-language Keyword

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

Auguste Comte

Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.

Anne Deavere Smith

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Andrzej Wajda

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Yann Martel

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

Barry Ritholtz

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Larry Wall

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

Jim Wallis

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

The Book of English Magic

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

Gong Li

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Glen Duncan

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Sue Grafton

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

Salma Hayek

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Jet Li

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

E. M. Forster

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Jefferson Mays

Almásy: Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.

The English Patient

Katharine Clifton: Am I K in your book? I think I must be.

The English Patient

Almásy: I am a just a bit of toast, my friend.

The English Patient