#language

Music is the universal language of mankind. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#mankind #music #universal #universal language

Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting. ↗

— Clifford Longley

#cell #language #monk

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

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

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

#agent #both #degree #his #historian

I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#been #countries #having #i #languages

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#autobiographical #couple #doubt #everyone #film