#language

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today. ↗

— Terry Crowley

#language #linguistics #attitude

Language changes very fast. ↗

— John M. Smith

#fast #language #very

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#beliefs #cannot #cause #does #hold

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#administration #agreed #being #capital #democratic

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#bringing #importance #into #language #new

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. ↗

— Nelly Sachs

#any #breathed #freedom #knowing #language

Image is an international language. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#international #international language #language #national language

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#language #art

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#beyond #case #confines #constructed #content