Quotes of: Languages Keyword

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

John Milius

Love is the universal language of heart. Feeling are the universal language of love. Smile is the universal language of charm. Attraction is the universal language of life.

Debasish Mridha

Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe.

Debasish Mridha

Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is the essence of being human. We can think, thanks to language, for thought exists only by the grace of words. ...

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Julia Glass

Photograph speaks every language; wisdom speaks every language; goodness speaks every language; love speaks every language! Always try to do the things that speak every language so that all will understand you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Richard Lederer

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

Twyla Tharp

Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant of the ‘language of Shakespeare’... sufficiently to realise the magnitude of the loss to humanity...

J.R.R. Tolkien

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Sun Ra

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word.

Kedar Joshi

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to communicate with one another all the time and as freely as possible? We cannot leave it to time t...

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere ...

Boy Meets Boy

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

All women speak two languages:  the language of men  and the language of silent suffering.  Some women speak a third,  the language of queens.

E-mails from Scheherazad

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Enrique Iglesias

Writers in what we now call the Middle English period (late twelfth century to 1485) did not necessarily always write in English. The language was in a state of flux: attempts were made to assert the French language, to keep down the local language, ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland