Own Language Quotes

76 Own Language quotes by 66 unique authors

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to… — Hermann Hesse
Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and… — Roland Merullo
Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one… — Jodi Picoult
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. — KatÃ³ Lomb
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate… — Walter Benjamin
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. — Unknown Author
We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes… — Jodi Picoult
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they… — Lauren Willig
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. — David Levithan
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,… — David Mitchell
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped… — Lev Grossman
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak… — Terry Pratchett
The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need… — Unknown Author
When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their… — Armando Iannucci
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have… — Ann Demeulemeester
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but… — Amish Tripathi
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound… — Barry Ritholtz
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they… — Lee Iacocca
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought… — Robert Scheer
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there. — Paul Westerberg
Every country has its own language, but of course the whole world speaks one language the language of love from the heart, which recognize animal — Mak_786
Art express our emotions beyond our own language. — Unknown Author
Silent Love Does Not Have Words It Has Its Own Language, Which Can Only Be Heard By The Person We love...!! — Ritu Ghatourey

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