#language

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. ↗

— David Chalmers

#helps #i #i can #language #probably

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#expression #eye #genius #language #natural

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#because #becomes #book #french #goes

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ↗

— David Antin

#entertainment industry #gods #industry #language #may

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. ↗

— Edward Appleton

#language #long #mind #opera #sung

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#chatter #incomprehensible #language #like #teeth

In general, every country has the language it deserves. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#deserves #every #general #language

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#insignificance #language #lesson #life #most

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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