Quotes of: Languages Keyword

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Vladimir Kramnik

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Wanda Jackson

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.

Christopher Unborn

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul. ☥

Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Chris Ware

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

M. H. Abrams

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Shepard Fairey

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

All the Light We Cannot See

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osler

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

Surprised by Hope

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Over the water of time I call to you In a language I do not know.

Skinny-Dipping with the Muse

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost

Second Sight

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Paris to the Moon

We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing.

That Hideous Strength

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon