1599 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world. Cesaro

A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself. Chang-Rae Lee

Language Approach Angle Comprehensive Structure Simply Rendering Itself Whether Realist Justify Social Theme Requires Special Even Novel

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. Charles Baudelaire

Sad Religion Man Liberty Better Language Long Own Our Anguish Individual He Knows Because Itself Very Celebrated Than Which Ask Full Grants Painter Each Universal Profoundly

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. Charles Ives

Hope Music Man Better Language Sense Extravagant Most Always Curious Intended May Maybe Transcendental Satisfy

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation. Charles Kennedy

Language Believe Liberal Liberal Democrats Sides Both Both Sides Between Industry Democrats Dialogue Confrontation Cooperation Reject

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. Charles Kuralt

Love Good You Language Imitate Imitating Tell Exactly Could Writer Am Falling Falling In Love Trying Which Rhythms Plagiarism

I started out with machine code and assembly language. Charles Petzold

Language Machine Out Assembly Code Started

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that! Charles Studd

God Family People Speak Simple Word Language Live Distant Bad Neither Abraham Could Through He Invisible Terrible Understand Nor Stock Land Farmer Desert Whose Among

It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct. Charles T. Canady

Constitution Language Duty President Guilty Misconduct Entrusted Him Does Official Not Guilty English Who English Language Assert Violated Violence

The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.' Charlie Brooker

In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown. Cheech Marin

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. Chelsea Clinton

Love Words Language Important Think Right Words Economy Precision Right

The next time you watch a villain or an actor whom you know to be a non-native speaker of the language, watch the lip-sync. You'll know the amount of work that dubbing artistes have been putting in to elevate the performance of the actors. Chinmayi

Work Time You Language Putting Performance Know Been Next Speaker Next Time Villain Whom Actor Elevate Amount Watch

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. Chinua Achebe

Love Beautiful Me Heart Passion Language Poet Wild Side Chaotic Right Side Right Thing Seemed Poetry He Ideas Liked Wrote Always His May Just Loved The Right Thing Really Right Thing Flow

The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward. Chris Adrian

Me Science Language Later Way Kid Out About Bothering Talk Science Fiction Were Fiction Stories Straightforward Turned Engaged

It's funny - I was a big fan of 'The Sopranos.' It became kind of a threat to 'The X-Files' in a way because they could play with language, character, and story in ways that we never could because of the limitations of network television. Chris Carter

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used. Chris Crutcher

Language Argument Tolerance Our Case Give Allow Since Also Schools Make Children Stories Which Them Use Used Zero Zero Tolerance

In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form. Chris Meledandri

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows. Chris Pine

Life Dangerous Word Language Responsibility Think Case Demand Implies Most Done Just Which Should English English Language Flows

I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one. Chris Sacca

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate. Christie Hefner

Communication Communicate Try Language Power Control Intimidated Though About Exists Often Either Jargon Captive Even Actually

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. Christopher Dawson

Language Understanding Obstacle Greatest Greatest Obstacle Barrier International

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. Christopher Hitchens

You Privacy Mistake School Language Made Crushed Would Small Could Feel Know Make Sting Undoubtedly Yes Where Younger Much Really Etiquette Flick Lash Britain

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