#language

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#cannot #describe #fights #followed #frantic

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#country #languages #learn #own #people

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#dolly #dolly parton #especially #get #hillbilly

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#becoming #both #clear #communication #component

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

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#anyone #bands #being #books #community

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#few #foreign #foreign languages #go #had

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