#lan

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #cliche #come #different #diverse

love & hate two simple words but they have a big meaning,one of them can convert earth to a part from heaven the other can make it a part from hell. ↗

— لانا سليمان

#love

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.  ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#language-understanding #love

Dreams are our only geography—our native land. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dreams #geography #land #literature #literature-quotes

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#america #did #directions #director #first

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#music #writing #music

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#bar #burden #cannot #doubts #far

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#highland #leaves-of-grass #nature #poetry #song

Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"? ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#nature #poetry #stars #words #nature

Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men #mountains #nature #personality #women