#language

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #encompass #fiction #films #global

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#another #being #come #country #entered

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#language #design

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#speech #writing #beauty

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. ↗

— Edmund de Waal

#languages #travel #art

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#beauty #language #nature #art

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#books #course #five #forward #given

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#arabic #certain #i #i can #i do

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer. ↗

— John Edward

#how #individuals #information #journal #keep

War is what happens when language fails. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#happens #language #war