1602 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English. Lev Grossman

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You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! Lewis Tappan

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Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. Lewis Thomas

Matter Language Prevents Sticking Hand Human Us Human Language

When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid. Li Lu

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Food is the common language for all of us. Lidia Bastianich

Food Language Common Common Language Us

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can. Linda Cardellini

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I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult. Lionel Richie

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One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language. Lisa Kristine

Photography Language Visual Advantage Transcend

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in. Liza Donnelly

Together Communicate World Language Our Cartoonists Linked

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. Lois Lowry

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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language. Loretta Lynn

Women Language Hillbilly Along Talk Singers Dolly Parton Get Same

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled. Lorrie Moore

Language Naked Style Unparalleled Adventures Really

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English. Louis Begley

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise. Louise Gluck

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I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better. Lucas Black

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Every year, I send 1,000 students to China to study Chinese history, language, and culture. Lucio Tan

History Culture Language Year Every Students Study Send China Chinese

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. Lucy Liu

Character You Language Once Embody Costume Put Really Naturally

I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere. Ludovico Einaudi

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For the score of 'Black Panther,' the heart and soul came from immersing myself in the rich musical history of the griots in West Africa. I was following these brilliant musicians all over rural Senegal, learning their musical language. Ludwig Goransson

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

You Language Pain Concept Learned

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Behavior Language Unknown System Reference Common Which Mankind Means Interpret

Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep. Luis Alberto Urrea

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