Quotes of: Language Keyword

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

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

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 language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

When Angels Are Born

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

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

Park Chan-wook

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Paul Celan

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.

Per Petterson

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

Ray Comfort