Quotes of: Human-language Keyword

The language of the heart Is the only language That everybody can understand.

Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

My Sister's Keeper

I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.

A Million Suns

...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes.

A Little Something Different

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

The Language of Fashion

Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

The Language of Genes

God is not afraid of pain. He does not try to keep us from it. He does not avoid it for Himself.

The Language of Sparrows

In a battle of believability, the winner is the one with the best body language, not the clearest logic.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

Gloria Estefan

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

John Lawler

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Ntozake Shange

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Patricia Birch

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Paul de Man

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

P. F. Strawson

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

Tom Stoppard

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Matthew Shipp

We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.

Kafka on the Shore

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Gunter Grass

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Edward Sapir

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

Rick Mercer

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Shakuntala Devi