Quotes of: Human-language Keyword

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

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

Jaime Murray

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

Judith Martin

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

David Chalmers

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

David Crystal

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

John Edward

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Jay Griffiths

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

John Irving

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Jim Jarmusch

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

Bayard Taylor

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Lytton Strachey

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

M. F. Husain

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.

Marian Seldes

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

Stu Price: You are a fucking moron! Alan Garner: Your language is offensive. Stu Price: Fuck you!

The Hangover