#lang

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. ↗

— Anne Rice

#ancient #beginning #greek #i #i am

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#change #different #drive #energies #fascinates

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. ↗

— Timothy West

#certain #certain things #deemed #language #offensive

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#high time #i #language #little #my own

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#dictate #either #extent #increasing #languages

The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#imagery #beauty

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#captures #humankind #language #past

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#degree #foreign #foreign languages #i #knowledge

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages! ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#come #each #even #languages #other