Quotes of: Languages Keyword

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

Aimee Bender

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

Warwick Davis

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... th...

Dune

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of and and and and and ,...

The Anthologist

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit hu...

Serious Men

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning...

The Space Race

There's a certain language, a dying language, and I can't remember who speaks it or where in the world they are, but in that language the future is referred to as being behind us. It must be behind us, since we can see the past. We walk backwards, bl...

Where I End and You Begin

Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and condi...

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

Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it with (Jonathan) Swift's anger. Instead, he hoped the example of his dictionary would temper that change by prov...

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

God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great ...

Peter Kreeft

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result ...

N. Scott Momaday

Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technol...

Toba Beta

Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect.

Russian

I'm online, therefore I am.

China Simplified: Language Gymnastics: A springboard into Chinese culture

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

The Five Love Languages Singles Edition

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Maxims and Reflections

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

The Language Of Others

I sent a message silently, through body language and body odor.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Joss Whedon