#language

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#better #generally #good #languages #less

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#french #good #happy #i #language

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#grow #into #language #out #run

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#because #country #england #forced #going

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#conditions #exist #feel #glow #hear

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#long #made #monologues #plays #prose

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#category #different #i #language #parents

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

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