1602 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

Neither of my parents had English as a first language. Maryanne Trump Barry

Language Parents First Neither Had English

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause. Maryanne Wolf

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment's requirements - from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used. Maryanne Wolf

Needs Writing Vision Language Will Reading Whatever Research Medium Circuit Further Characteristics Systems Given Through Develop Environment Genetic Like Know Human Blueprint Different Human Beings Requirements Used Beings Adapt

I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that. Matt Reeves

Me Eyes Son Intelligence Speak Amazing Word Language Father Before Sign See Could He Spoken Spoken Word Him Learn Around Understand How His Going Frustrated Use Actually

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future. Matt Taibbi

Future People Political Language Own Too Fluent Complex Those Crisis Solved Only Crowd Vast Vast Majority Majority Understand Wall Wall Street American Ordinary Ordinary People Urgent Turned Creating Street

I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language. Matthew James Thomas

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that. Matthew Tobin Anderson

Language Reading Building Think Monster Kids Given He Excited Heads Like Always Real Blood Tattoo Difference Which Creates Who Whole Series Credit Cognitive

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language. Maurice Druon

Love Respect Language Longer French Instrument Because Glory Loving Themselves

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it. Maurice Druon

Language Ideology France Pot French French Language Making Go Socialist

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. Max Frisch

Language Horse Between Dealer Understand Author Difference

Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel

Music Soul Language

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom. Max von Sydow

Great Freedom Language Master Spielberg Gives He Idea Steven Attractive Steven Spielberg Him Knows Camera Very Which Working Filmmaking

I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language. Meg Wolitzer

Love Language Think Thinking About Supposed Lot

Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity. Meghan Daum

Language Fluidity Lies Magic Course Much

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. Melissa Rosenberg

Life Best Speak Language My Life First Approach Collaborating Say Must Winning He Academy Academy Award Him Himself Always Been Foremost Same May Experiences Screenwriter Story Storyteller Bill Professional Award Things

It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle. Michael Arden

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with. Michael C. Hall

Cancer Language Particularly Comfortable Surrounding

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters. Michael Cadnum

I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read. Michael Cadnum

Creative Writing Language Challenge Practice Reading Met Alive Possibilities Classroom Poets Take Since Read Am Real Been Interest Much Persuaded Teaching Creative Writing Serious Including Novelists Bringing

I see tendencies, I see body language. Michael Chang

Language See Tendencies Body Body Language

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. Michael Cunningham

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