#lang

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #best #both #campfire #cast

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#dance #difference #earns #language #life

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#languages #metaphysical #most #nouns #verbs

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#dissect #down #laid #language #lines

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#discovers #exploration #future #him #his

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ↗

— George Will

#becomes #idiom #language #nation #noise

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. ↗

— Carey Williams

#including #languages #must #number #order

I think music is another language. ↗

— Dar Williams

#i #i think #language #music #think

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself. ↗

— Robin Williams

#english #get #himself #language #like

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. ↗

— Saul Williams

#acquired taste #actual #focus #i #language