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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
Music You Language Say Only Cannot Which Mean Sarcastic Thing
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. John Hume
Word Language Speechless Would Would-Be English English Language Paisley
Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time. John Lanchester
Work Time Me You Speak Money Language Research Once See All-Around Through Write Written Like Learn Around Felt Surface Led Did Which Us Code Things Start Flow
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the minimum semantic space. John Lanchester
Learning Communicate Money Space Language Minimum Both Poetry Like Involve Because Lot Meaning Packs Consequence
Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny. John Legend
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied. John Lewis
Music Eyes Language Somebody Style Sense Say Something Almost Like Real Comics Denied Behold Cannot Moving Figure They Say Universal Images Universal Language
The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious. John Lithgow
Language Hilarious Rich Detailed
Language is froth on the surface of thought. John McCarthy
Language Thought Surface
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. John McCarthy
Beautiful Most Beautiful Word Language Liberal Compulsory Between Most Contemporary Forbidden Beautiful Word Difference Whereas English English Language Socialist
As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke. John McWhorter
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Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. John McWhorter
Communication Language Everyday Vocabulary Beyond Command Loving Means Your Level
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's. John McWhorter
People Complicated Language Few Thousand More Head Spoken Most Make Trader Than Manhattan Much Your Languages Swim Bond
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language. John McWhorter
Language Black Example Just Be Ways Some Simpler Adult Drops For Example Learned Because Am Than Gets Often Just African Standard English Slaves
When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented. John Patrick Shanley
People Gift Language Father Farm Believe Visited Had Talking Felt Heard Ireland Very
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. John Sladek
Problem Language Alive Able Except Read Makes Privilege List Any Being Century Meaningless Illiterate
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. John Strachan
Beautiful Most Beautiful Language Before Society Some Recovering Delivered He Drowned Most Discourse May Which Interesting Justly Persons Requests English English Language Sermons Published
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. John Wesley Powell
Art Language Illustration Resources Adequately Must Features Attempting Fail Combined Beyond Powers Nor Itself Wonders Cannot Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Taxed Graphic Portray Symbols Speech
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence. John Wesley Powell
Organization Language Consists Parts Integration Linguistic Sentence Sentences Then Organs Differentiation Speech
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. John le Carre
Language Fly Master Pupils Must Be Prepared Diverse Principally How Private German Salvador Salvador Dali Manage Any Taught Anything Literature Ask Teach Paintings Prepared Dali Early
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. John le Carre
Language Fools Damn Say Most Learn Another
Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that. Johnny Flynn
You People Language Own Other Else About Someone Taking Learn Doing Lot Brains Fitting Your Speech
The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy. Jon Favreau
Day Language Humor Laugh Complexity Able Guy Shakespeare Could Studied Scholars Real Still Meter Ultimate His Get Storyteller Who Symbolism
I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. Jonas Gahr Store
Education Learning People Language Think Relatively Taking Well Integration Going Norway Working Standards
I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside. Jonas Gahr Store
Education Democracy Learning People Debate Language Challenge Think Relatively Take Push Open Taking Openly Democratic Well Integration Questions Yes Going Norway Aside Working Standards
When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established. Jonathan Glazer
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Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine. Jonathan Nolan
Wisdom Future Time Home You Travel Book Matter Old Language Books Machine Thousand Hurl Thousand Years Find Idea Contains Ideas Look Sort How Least Years Time Travel Going Anyone Modest Created Mechanism Humans
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