#lang

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#break #break up #fallen #form #i

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#common language #effect #every #history #language

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#command #drawing #english #english language #fine

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. ↗

— John Berger

#dwelling #home #hostile #human #language

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #encompass #fiction #films #global

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#another #being #come #country #entered

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#chess #language #natural #players #something

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. ↗

— Larry Herzberg

#chinese #culture #language #proverbs #sayings

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#language #design

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#speech #writing #beauty