1599 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. Erich Fromm

Dreams Great World Language Great Deal Important Busy Those Ourselves Tell Both Outside Outside World Myths Written Miss Hours Know Deal Understand Which Manipulating Communications

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it. Erik Estrada

Time Culture Speak Language Parents Lose Intimidated Backgrounds Kids Had Terrible Another Because Deal Always Lot Whenever Different Different Backgrounds Happens Spanish Grandparents Teachings By The Time

All language is a popularity contest. Erin McKean

Language Contest Popularity Popularity Contest

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too. Erin McKean

Creativity Innovation Language Signs Power Twitter Too Other Entire Ecosystem Sites Just Interact Engine Showing Platform Extend Technological

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. Ernest Istook

Language Citizen Reading Become Our Official Should Requirements Speaking English

St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence. Eugene Kennedy

Time Nature Religion Language Father Long Long Time Sense Living Imagination Our Penalties John Entire Council Vatican Had He Spoke Because Reveals Understood Existence Wonder Just Holy Pope Found Awe Second Symbols

It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy. Eugenio Derbez

Comedy Language Easy Direct Another

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. Evan Parker

Attitude Music People Language Free Think Speed Those Easier Kinds Attacks Sharing Between Qualities Density Improvisation Intensity Achieved Common Interaction Common Language Certain Flow

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound

Great Language Degree Possible Charged Great Literature Simply Literature Meaning Utmost

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. F. Murray Abraham

From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel. F. Sionil Jose

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. Famke Janssen

Beautiful Good Happy Speak Language French Still

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. Ferdinand de Saussure

Language Will Strictly Those Recognise Restricted General Laws Rational Operating Another Linguistics Branch Manner Separating Languages Phenomena Universally

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. Ferdinand de Saussure

Language Correcting Directed Studies Merely Towards Longer Were Grammar Henceforth

I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character. Finn Wittrock

Character You Writing Language Picture Skin Every Think Else Ways Inside See Some Someone Structure Writer Understand Same Getting Creating Acting Whole Actions

You always speak the language you hear most. Floor Jansen

You Speak Language Most Always Hear

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