Quotes by Language It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get. Chath Piersath bornlanguageliterature European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. Cheikh Anta Diop ballsglasseslanguage I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. Chelsea Clinton languageimportantthinking My favourite films are in languages I don't understand. Chika Anadu favouritefilmlanguage It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable. Chinua Achebe languagewritingthinking It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind. Chinua Achebe languagepurposeuse I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language. Chita Rivera languagespeakbelieve Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. Chogyam Trungpa individuallanguageshould You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. Chris Crutcher madlanguage There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too. Chris Gardner arenamedicinelanguage The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence. Chris Hedges violencelanguagespeak I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. Chris Marker markerspseudonymslanguage John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom. Chris Matthews tyrantslanguagekings It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs. Chris Patten tribesaffairlanguage Comics are not a genre, but a developing language. Chris Ware language If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. Christian Friedrich Hebbel logiccreationlanguage However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well. Christian Karlson Stead nativelanguageproblem Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general. Christian Morgenstern realizinglanguageworld We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story. Christina Baldwin languagestoriesthinking Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in. Christina Ricci environmentlanguagebody«1314151617181920212223»
