#language

Wrath dragged Beth into his arms and hugged her hard, talking in that other language again. When he pulled back, he ended the monologue with something like leelan. Beth: "Is that vampire talk for bitch? ↗

— J.R. Ward

#dark-lover-p- #language

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#english language #government #help #here #i

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#language #song #soul #speech #speech

Ce n'était qu'un renard semblable à cent mille autres. Mais j'en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#children-s-books #foreign-language #french #friendship #friendship

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.  ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#language-understanding #love

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#bright #genuine #ideas #instead #jargon

The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#power #nature

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#american #another #called #crime #definitely

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american cinema #because #case #cinema #coming