I like Robo Shankar - he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his… — Vivek Copy Share Image
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
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A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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“If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
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“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
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I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it… — James Frank Copy Share Image
“OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
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