Language Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Magpies Nature Stealing
“There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.” — Nahiyan bin Asadullah Copy Share Image
We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
