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Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language of the common person so that Joe, who didn't even go to college, can sit down and read my book and get it and apply it to his life.
Gary Chapman
Life
Book
Language
College
Sit
Down
Books
Joe
Write
Academic
Read
Said
Go
His
Years
Years Ago
Years And Years
Person
Get
Did
Common
Want
Who
Even
Apply
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
Gary Jennings
Language
Ancient
Read
Learned
Interpret
Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.
Gary Johnson
People
Language
Out
Able
Part
Read
Talking
Campaigning
Being
Body
Body Language
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston Bachelard
Future
Language
Say
Destinies
Would
Poetic
Poetry
Opens
Newness
Image
Speech
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
Gates McFadden
You
Learning
Culture
Better
Language
Own
Think
See
Another
Just
Your
Viewpoint
Here in America, money is something everyone can have, and because Trump poured cement with blue collars when he was a young man, he knows the vernacular; he speaks that language. In fact, he was probably much more comfortable with them than he is with the aristocrats, who are his financial peers.
Gavin McInnes
Man
Money
Financial
Language
Young
Everyone
Peers
Collars
Something
More
Fact
Poured
He
Aristocrat
Knows
Comfortable
Because
Vernacular
His
Trump
Than
America
Blue
Cement
In Fact
Young Man
Them
Much
Speaks
Who
Here
I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.
Gene Luen Yang
Class
Words
Language
Programming
Took
Classroom
Through
Environment
Grade
Fifth
Specifically
Designed
Basically
Through the years, I've developed a style or a language that I like, even when it applies to action. All my action principles are very similar to my cartoony principles, because all the poses want to be really strong.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Strong
Language
Style
Action
Similar
Through
Developed
Like
Principles
Because
Years
Very
Want
Really
Even
Poses
I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.
George A. Moore
Religion
People
Language
Feeling
Own
Believe
Must
Find
More
Make
Than
Salvation
Any
Arts
Avail
Much
Universal
Universal Language
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.
George C. Wolfe
You
Language
Way
Adjust
Evolve
Vocabulary
Talking
Depending
Each
Actor
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.
George Edward Woodberry
World
Language
Men
Minds
Once
Earth
Ourselves
All The World
Logic
Vocal
Diversified
Various
Divest
Identity
Grammatical
Literature
Which
Notion
Image
Necessary
Tongues
Speech
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
George Henry Lewes
Art
Language
Only
Through
Also
Affect
After
Us
Use
Symbols
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
George Herbert Mead
Character
Language
Own
Group
Others
Address
Gives
Individual
Through
Thus
Himself
Becomes
His
Conduct
Role
Human
Them
Aware
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
George Steiner
Silence
World
Language
Translation
Every
Would
Without
Inhabit
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
George Stigler
Work
People
Language
Unless
Citizens
Thousands
Abroad
Physicist
He
Economist
Instructions
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Opinions
His
Discuss
Get
Goes
Native
Fifty
Swedish
I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.
George Zimmerman
People
Mother
Language
Father
White
Believe
Think
Assumed
Name
Because
Caucasian
Hispanic
English
Second
Last
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age
Language
Poetical
Current
Should
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Gilbert Highet
Old
Language
Drop
Big
Become
Living
Changing
Out
Bud
Feel
New
Pieces
Parts
Spread
Leaves
Off
Branches
Forgotten
Thing
Living Thing
An American customer can book in English all over the world, but also, somebody from Japan or China can book in their own language everywhere. We translate all of our content into these languages, and that's quite unique. We service our direct customers - the innkeepers - as well in their own language.
Gillian Tans
Service
Book
World
Language
Somebody
Own
Our
Everywhere
Direct
Over
Also
Well
Content
American
Quite
China
Japan
Customer
Customers
Translate
Languages
English
Unique
I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.
Glen Duncan
Good
Character
Language
Care
About
Fact
Very
In Fact
Story
Barely
Compared
Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.
Glenn Beck
Music
Heart
Language
Conservatives
Always
Up
Screw
Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.
Glenn Ligon
You
Language
Prison
Sense
Others
Perceived
How
Controls
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
Godfrey Reggio
Love
Words
Language
Humiliation
Films
Enormous
State
Our
Feel
Make
Because
Without
Lack
Decided
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.
Gordon B. Hinckley
You
Better
Opportunity
Language
Will
Understanding
Own
Given
Never
Better Understanding
Study
Spoken
Another
Foreign
Foreign Language
May
Where
Land
Acquire
Asked
Your
Tongue
I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.
Gore Verbinski
Time
You
Language
Sideways
Kid
Archetypes
Head
Genre
Sort
Because
Go
End
Up
Westerns
Any
Just
Turn
Many
Using
Play
Twist
Watched
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
Graham Joyce
People
Language
Experiment
Out
Take
React
Making
Any
Form
Novelist
Thick
Right
Defend
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