Familiar Quote by Guy Debord

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement…

— Guy Debord

In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would…

— Terry Pratchett

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

— Kató Lomb

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

— Henri Delacroix

The translator constantly learns new things about himself.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

— John Hancock

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been…

— Henry David Thoreau

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

— Philippa Gregory

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I spent five years learning the language of his eyes.”

— Sarah Harian

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

— Jacques Derrida

He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who…

— Angela Carter