#language

It is time for dead languages to be quiet. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#languages #quiet #time

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#handle #kind #language #practice #skillfully

You have to learn the language of Hamlet. ↗

— Edward Bond

#language #learn #you

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

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#chance #determined #fighting #give #i

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#english #in the past #language #paintbrush #past

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#any #inevitable #language #more #state

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#culture #destinies #destiny #history #language

...he wonders by what process virtually any discussion about the war seems to profane these ultimate matters of life and death. As if to talk of such things properly we need a mode of speech near the equal of prayer, otherwise just shut, shut your yap and sit on it, silence being truer to the experience than the star-spangled spasm, the bittersweet sob, the redeeming hug, or whatever this fucking closure is that everybody's always talking about. They want it to be easy and it's just not going to be. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#war #death