#language

Languages are true analytical methods. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#languages #methods #true

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more. ↗

— Jude Law

#anyway #around #beyond #bit #bracket

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#closer #common #connection #different #different people

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#human #human reason #internal #knows #language

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. ↗

— Jet Li

#children #chinese #chinese culture #culture #cultures

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#comes #costume #embody #especially #language

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#beat #emotional #films #his #language

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

Music is the universal language of mankind. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#mankind #music #universal #universal language