Quotes of: Languages Keyword

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carol P. Christ

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

George Steiner

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Howard Hodgkin

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

John O'Donohue

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

Joyce Rachelle

There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.

Jodi Sky Rogers

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Jay Samit

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Dominic Chianese

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Douglas Hyde

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

David LaChapelle

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Denis Lavant

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

David Mitchell

With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate.

Jim Drain

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

John M. Ford

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Joanne Harris

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Jamie L. Harding

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.

Joel Kinnaman

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

Analeigh Tipton

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Miguel de Icaza