#lang

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#battlefield #because #been #english #english language

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#delivery #else #everybody #everybody else #hard

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#dialogue #get #heard #i #interesting

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#deliver #even #foreign #foreign language #hard

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#drawing #i #i think #inborn #just

Language... 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

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#i #i wish #know #languages #life

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #culture #gender #here #idea

Tears are the silent language of grief. ↗

— Voltaire

#grief #language #silent #tears

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary