#language

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#deliver #even #foreign #foreign language #hard

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#difficult #english #english language #feel #i

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. ↗

— Alice Walker

#good #happened #intrinsic #language #part

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#bible #discussion #done #going #iraq

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#also #best #care #different #director

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ↗

— Simone Weil

#language #mind #prison

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#beat #best #best way #capture #excitement

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! ↗

— Morris West

#cage #drunk #ever #god #greeks

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#contains #future #human #human mind #language

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#appears #comes #languages #man #many