Quotes of: Human-language Keyword

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

Eiza Gonzalez

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Ben Marcus

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Ben Schott

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

Bayard Taylor

My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.

Greg Grunberg

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Gore Vidal

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.

Henry Grunwald

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

Jack Spicer

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Daniel Alarcon

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

David Antin

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

David Crystal

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Daniel Dennett

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

Domenico Dolce

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Deborah Kass

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Jacques Derrida