#language

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#beauty #bible #book #else #english

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #both #college #degree #everyone

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#california #college #get #growing #growing up

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#art #characterizes #creates #creativeness #critical

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. ↗

— Laura Fraser

#beauty

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#escape #language #things #we cannot #which

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#ambition #american #common #effect #faults

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#funny #language #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #funny

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#language #life #may #modern #shall

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#foreign #foreign languages #i #just #know