Language Quote by Ken Liu Download Open image ““she likes the sound of languages other than English.”” — Ken Liu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Languages Languages English Likes Sound Sound Sound Languages
“She must sense we’re annoyed because she unleashes a flurry of words that make me think at one point she’s speaking in a different… — Alretha Thomas Copy Share Image
“Once again, she speaks in another language when things get awkward.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.” — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.” — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“She says she speaks seven languages, really it’s more like thirteen and she understands even more than” — Nancy Ann Healy Copy Share Image
“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.” — Violet Kupersmith Copy Share Image
“If you want to be heard, learn the language of your listeners.” — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
“We are speaking different languages, as always, but that doesn't change the things we talk about.” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
