1599 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that. Elise Broach

Art Mom Library School Language Made Big Books Kids Hopefully Investment Instruction Knowing Sure Making Up Grown Grown-Up

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. Eliza Cook

Good Man Language Though Good Works Make Preacher Tis Forms Works

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen

Language Statement Mixture

Color is everything. It's another piece of the visual language to express what you're trying to say. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

You Language Everything Say Visual Color Piece Another Trying Express

There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health. Elizabeth Esty

Health Language Gun Prohibit Spending No Reason Federal Federal Spending Studying Causes Continue Effects Public Public Health Bill Reason Including Violence

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. Elizabeth Hardwick

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars. Ellen Key

Politics War People Language Nationalism Way Statesmen Would Would-Be Kindred Direct Preventing Lead Support Between Leads New Most Sound Inevitably Effective Effective Way Different Whereas Race Languages Wars Coercion Conquest Present

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound. Elmore Leonard

People Language Trouble Types Bad Bad Guys Guys Only Colorful Talk Sound Normal Very Any So-Called Certain Fun

For Elektra, I just wanted to be very clear. She's traveled the world. She didn't go to boarding school, but that's the type of girl that she'd be. So, I just wanted to make sure that I could bring that to her, which goes through the language. Elodie Yung

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both. Emanuel Cleaver

Time You Language Honey Members One Thing Both Make Contend Learned Democrats Said Sting Bees Same Going Legislation Same Time Cannot Either Republicans Republicans And Democrats Choice Used Nuclear Thing Symbol

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct. Emile Durkheim

Thoughts Language Example Single Healthy Sick Other Strictly Correct Respects Steal Unreasonable Drink Mentality He Perfectly Absurd Clearly For Example His Times Person Flaw Use Whose Acts Desire

Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I am always caught out by a line or moment which makes me laugh out loud. Emma Healey

Me Language Clever Settings Laugh Out Characters Unpredictable Never Fails Unusual Makes Always Am Caught Line Surprise Loud Fitzgerald Which Moment Elegant Her

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. Emma Lazarus

Language Jews Adopt Any Intensive Nationality Form Customs Whose

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film. Emmanuel Lubezki

Me People Language Experiment Correct Find Directors Most Attracted Attracts Very Trying Want Who Film Specific Thing

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative. Emmanuel Lubezki

Music Language Further Abstract Narrative Still Closer Theater Film Away

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent. Emmanuel Macron

History Language Shine Every Our Out Civilization Continent Across

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American. Emmanuelle Beart

Great Language Crime Other States Definitely Harvey Thriller Another American Done Just Against Each Film United United States Play

Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language. Emmanuelle Seigner

Great You You Can Do It Language Own Well Another Done Acting Your

As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person. Eniola Aluko

Food You Learning Little Things Language Drive Country Living Add Other Side Way Out More Road Takes Like Comfort Comfort Zone Making Foreign Educated Foreign Country Testify Up Person Different Ordering Little Different Language Your Petrol Rounded Things Zone Buying

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

Music World Language Rest Realistically Communicating English Universal Universal Language Number

My first language is Gaelic. Enya

Language First Gaelic

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. Eric Allin Cornell

Travel Learning Language Lesson Characters Thousands Had Written Perhaps Most Learned Provided Experiences Chinese Interesting Really Useful Many Proficiency

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. Erica Jong

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