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I want to learn the language of the sun, and burn Agatha’s eyes out with my love poems.


Jarod Kintz


#language #poem #funny

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.


Bernard Pivot


#calm #dynamic #french #language #makes

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.


Elizabeth Perkins


#common #common language #doing #easier #everyone

Metaphor is embodied in language.


Dennis Potter


#language #metaphor

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.


Michael Polanyi


#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.


Criss Jami


#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.


Lisa See


#been #china #county #found #invented

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.


Ezra Pound


#clear #efficient #good #keep #language

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.


John Wesley Powell


#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.


Aishwarya Rai


#best #bombay #different #even #experiences






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