#language

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different. ↗

— Bai Ling

#china #culture #different #different places #english

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. ↗

— Doug Larson

#english #english language #flowers #language #made

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#divinity #english #english language #french #invoked

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#always #any #been #canada #family

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. ↗

— Simon LeBon

#barriers #communicating #each #generations #language

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#existential #express #general #going #i

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#human #human reason #internal #knows #language

I know what the structure of the language is. ↗