Quotes of: Human-language Keyword

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of...

Stephen Fry

Negative thinking will not produce positive changes - ever.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

To know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

False Positives: A Techno Thriller

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

1984

Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my name included.

Afterimage

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Killosophy

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.

The Language of Flowers

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

The Language of Flowers

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

A Language Older Than Words

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Philosophical Investigations

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.

Pathfinder

What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages if you have nothing original to say in any language?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage.

Xazaqazax

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Michael Crawford

I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.

Olivier Magny