#language

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice. ↗

— James Merrill

#fresh #i #language #left #me

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. ↗

— Yao Ming

#going #just #language #learn #let go

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. ↗

— Yao Ming

#america #basketball #culture #difficult #foreign

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. ↗

— Thomas More

#being #call #concerning #country #differ

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#discovery #i #i love #interesting #language

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry ↗

— Krista Tippett

#heart #humanity #language #poetry #religion

I want to learn the language of the sun, and burn Agatha’s eyes out with my love poems. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#language #poem #funny

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#calm #dynamic #french #language #makes

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#common #common language #doing #easier #everyone

Metaphor is embodied in language. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#language #metaphor