Quotes of: Human-language Keyword

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Joseph Brodsky

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Simon Van Booy

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

Quincy Jones

I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

Candace Kita

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

Damien Chazelle

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

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook

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