#lang

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#bilingual #different #fair #favourite #foreign

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#irish #language #like #soothing

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#language #look #much #power #realize

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#color #comprehend #could #friendly #heard

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #i do #language #movie #next

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#connected #example #for example #language #liberate

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#art #art form #form #happens #language

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#effort #history #human #human effort #language

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#escape #find #get #i #into

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ↗

— George Orwell

#design