#language

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#around #back #bbc #china #cutting

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. ↗

— Rudolf Steiner

#begins #incomprehensible #language #meaningful #nature

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. ↗

— Laura Fraser

#beauty

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right. ↗

— Toni Collette

#also #different #different things #getting #having

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#escape #language #things #we cannot #which

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. ↗

— Eliza Cook

#good #good works #language #make #man

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#ambition #american #common #effect #faults

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#funny #language #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #funny

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got