Quotes of Wording - somelinesforyou

“ We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A different language is a different vision of life. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or literary diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive. ”

- James Agee

“ He has strangled His language in his tears. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ There're not too many other ways I know how to say 'no' without slipping into another language. ”

- Christopher Hill

“ In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ My first language is Gaelic. ”

- Enya

“ If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. ”

- Lionel Jospin

“ I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free. ”

- Olivier Martinez

“ Metaphor is embodied in language. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ This dark diction has become America's addiction. ”

- Kanye West

“ You can think of it as translating different languages. ”

- Michael Howard

“ I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. ”

- Stéphane Mallarmé

“ Our language hasn't changed. We're in negotiations, so that's all we're focused on. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The one overall structure in my plays is language. ”

- Edward Bond

“ Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language. ”

- Sophie Marceau

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

- Sophie Marceau

“ Everybody laughs in the same language. ”

- Unknown

“ Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. ”

- Alan Moore

“ Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing. ”

- Gloria Estefan

“ You just don't know how to use the English language. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Use what language you will, you can never say anything to others but what you are. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ As soon as there is life, there is danger. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen. ”

- Jacques Derrida

“ The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. ”

- Martin Heidegger

“ The whole thing was chaotic. Everyone spoke a different language. I knew a little French, so that's how I conversed with Leone. ”

- Eli Wallach
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