#lang

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#approach #book #characters #completely #diction

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#had #i #i think #language #main

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#brought #disgraceful #everything #institutions #irish

The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town marveling at the way that the words of the foreign language were freshly gathered fruits and not old and dry. They touched the senses marvelously, new like young beggars who accost you, not yet words but the every things they designate, happily running naked before being clothed again in abstraction. ↗

— Georges Limbour

#words #design

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#herself #language #she #show #soul

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#know #language #listen #minutes #rhythm

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#does #fish #his #language #love

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗