#language

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#basic #command #craftsman #know #language

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me. ↗

— Bo Derek

#am #difficult #discouraging #discovered #expected

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#generality #language #soon

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#i #language #longer #same #speak

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#alone #because #concern #express #expressed

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ↗

— Walt Disney

#inventions #language #mass #most #our

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#billions #change #emergence #evolution #further

I speak two languages, Body and English. ↗

— Mae West

#english #i #languages #speak #two