1603 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

The word 'midget' is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum's era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it. Sinead Burke

Word Language Society Tool Our Evolved Freak Vocabulary Shapes Powerful Name Powerful Tool Does Era Just Midget Should Shows

I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it. Sonakshi Sinha

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language. Sonny Bono

Legal Language Lawyer More Maybe Should Used Specific

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. Sophie Marceau

Language Think More French Than Acting English Even

Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi. Sriti Jha

Speak Language Too Besides About Make Hindi Just Native English

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect. Stacy Schiff

Great Respect People Genius Speak Political Language Will Every Ancient Ability Able Charm He Puts Cleopatra Testimony Source Essentially Irresistible Flattery Turn Really Languages Many Including Her

My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible. Stana Katic

Great Culture Try Language Parents Think Other Incredible At Least One Immigrants Would Would-Be Part Like House Learn Least Encourage Close Close Proximity Proximity Chinese Really Languages European Many Europeans Portuguese

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story. Stanley Hauerwas

War History Experience Language Sacrifice Important Depend Think Our States Ability Remains Like Most Particularly Because Common Story Which Unified Wars United United States Societies

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. Stefan Zweig

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language. Stephanie Beacham

Speak Money Word Language Young Drama Ran Worst Out Athens Able Student Had Stolen Holiday Things

Presidents Reagan and the first George Bush never used the vile language of some Trump supporters, but both blamed scarce resources and decaying communities on 'welfare queens' and black criminals like Willie Horton. Stephanie Coontz

Vile Welfare Language Black First Resources Criminals Presidents Willie Scarce Some Blamed Both Horton Never Supporters Like Reagan George Queens George Bush Trump Decaying Bush Used Communities

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. Stephen Greenblatt

Words Language First Before Astonishing Out Shakespeare Volcano Never Had First Of All Him Been Eruption Used English English Language

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Stephen Greenblatt

Love Man Language Young Shakespeare Poetry Remarkable Perhaps Know Most Wrote Passionate Passionate Love Young Man Body English English Language

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! Stephen Sondheim

Life Love Words Language Rhyme Hardest Two

I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language. Stephon Marbury

Speak Language Three Country Where Championships

If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially a problem in the West, where voters have always mistrusted the federal government. Steve Bullock

Government You Problem Speak Language Sense Folks Diverse Federal Federal Government Voters Makes Always West Where Places Faraway Hard Even

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language. Steve Lacy

I can't sight-read classical etudes - I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It's like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant. Steve Lukather

95% on content and the computer language remains the same. Steve McConnell

Language Remains Computer Content Same

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. Steve Sabol

Language Signs New Importance Artist Bringing

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had. Steve Whitmire

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. Steven Pinker

Good Language Parents Kids Fact Could Simply Environment Genes Well Make Talkative Provide Articulate Same Children Mean Skills

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. Steven Pinker

Music Art Language Mind Depend Painting System Visual Details Poetry Faculties Because Depends Literature Certain Sculpture Appeals Works

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