#lang

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#easily #know #languages #lend #themselves

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#curious #good #good book #instructive #language

To have another language is to possess a second soul. ↗

— Charlemagne

#language #possess #second #soul

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#among #analysis #assumed #basically #college

Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at the least, facts and knowledge about some history and people that have their place in the understanding of mankind. Every language is a treasury of human experience. Eyak doesn't give a damn about tenses. But it sure does give a damn about other things, much more than I do. Therefore it broadens your thinking, enriches your ability to understand the world- to deal with reality and experience. ↗

— Michael E. Krauss

#language #experience

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#language #life #matter #poetry

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #everybody #fairly #gets

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference. ↗

— Michael Crawford

#care #compassion #did #difference #english

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#come #companies #i #language #looking

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. ↗

— Wade Davis

#extinction #half #haunting #languages #realize