#language

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#define #difficult #express #feelings #her

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#atoms #cannot #here #language #ordinary

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#language #never #people #reach #wish

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#communicate #could #delightful #felt #go

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ↗

— John Erskine

#language #mean #music #only #sarcastic

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do. ↗

— Mari Evans

#go #i #language #must #poetic

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#ascribe #assume #basic #certain #civilization

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#different ways #hong #hong kong #i #i can

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#interesting #interesting people #languages #latin #like