#lang

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#language #money #nations #sense #speaks

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american cinema #because #case #cinema #coming

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#chance #determined #fighting #give #i

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#becoming #been #better #chances #china

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#mixture #statement

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#english #in the past #language #paintbrush #past

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#any #inevitable #language #more #state