Quotes of: Language Keyword

The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part of the United States of America. It sprang from the German tongue spoken by the Teutons, who came over to Britain aft...

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also ...

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Language has everything to do with oppression and liberation. When the word "victory" means conquer vs. harmony and the word "equality" means homogenization vs. unity in/through diversity, then the liberation of a people from a "minority" class to "c...

Cristina Marrero

We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter what truths these languages might be carrying. If you talk with a harsh, urbanized accent and you use too many profanities, that will often get you bar...

Junot Diaz

The language I learned was pretty, full of passivity and silence. I had no proper language for the issues of blood and anger, yet much of what went on when I was a child made me angry. There were no words a nice girl could use to describe anger; her ...

Beth Bagley

God knows what will happen to women who drink wine, girls that speak old languages, and suns that set too early.

Breton

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.

The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

We don’t really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we’ve evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we’ve created. Perhaps it’s a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is a...

Ecstasy

...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.

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

Ego sends a lot of messages through the sub-conscious that do not serve our true nature, even a little bit.

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

The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.

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

There are only about 30,000 really important books in the world. I suppose about 5,000 of them were written in the English language, and 5,000 more have been translated. - Roger Mifflin

The Haunted Bookshop

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.

Rites of Passage

The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Fle...

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background 1100-1500

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Smilla's Sense of Snow