Top 100 Quotes About Your Language
#1. Does 'submissive' mean 'baby' in your language, Master Mason? Because I'll have you know
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No, but Dominant does mean lover, caretaker, disciplinarian, and whatever else the situation warrants.
Bianca Sommerland
#2. That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use those things to get what they want from you. Most
Lisa Unger
#3. To change your language you must change your life.
Derek Walcott
#4. Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs
Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather.
S. Caroline Taylor
#5. It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
Aravind Adiga
#6. In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
Arundhati Roy
#7. A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.
Yamini Krishnamurthy
#8. You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books
Geoffrey Dutton
#9. Asked nicely, and that didn't seem to work. So I thought you'd be useful. Your language is more uncivilized than mine.
Krista Ritchie
#10. Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman
#11. You forget where you are," he said. "What right do you have to come here and cause trouble, and then tell us to speak your language?
Hunter S. Thompson
#12. Ow! Dammit!"
"Watch your language. This is a holy place."
"Hah!" I grumbled. "If it's so holy, why don't they have a holy elevator? Or a holy librarian who can go fetch the blasted book for us?
Cecily White
#13. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
Richard Mitchell
#14. You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.
Roger Ailes
#15. Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast
Madeleine L'Engle
#16. I have loved you in your own language, Kaela thought as she picked up her blades, so softly that we never knew it. Let your language be mine; let me cast my own shadows.
Yoon Ha Lee
#17. My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.
Alfonso Soriano
#18. You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift , not from Shopsy's.
Robertson Davies
#19. I'm sorry. I know I have hurt you, but I would like to make the future different. I would like to love you in your language. I would like to meet your needs. I have seen marriages rescued from the brink of divorce when couples make the choice to love.
Gary Chapman
#20. If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#21. Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind.
Jeff Wheeler
#22. You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to pick up as much as you can. I certainly think going forward - away from football because football is just a small part of your life - you will grow as a person.
Steve McManaman
#23. Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
Vinnie Jones
#24. God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours ... I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.
Frank C. Laubach
#25. Your language indicates--and limits--what you think.
Jonathan Price
#26. That is also an idiom." Wilem grumbled. "Your language is thick with nonsense. I wonder how any of you understand each other. How is everything going? Going where?" He shook his head.
Patrick Rothfuss
#27. I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.
Frances Hesselbein
#28. Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
Edward R. Murrow
#29. Mind your language, count your words, mean what you say coz otherwise people no longer stay
Ameya Agrawal
#30. Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
J.C. Ryle
#31. Not everyone can understand your language like using "BTW", "BRB", "SAA" and many other such type of short words.
Deyth Banger
#32. My damned little siren laughed at me. "I see your language has improved."
Poof - like magic, the anger disappeared.
Katie McGarry
#33. Your language looks like a treasure map,' she said, 'if you forget all the rest of the letters and focus in on the x, it looks as if you could find out where the treasure is.
Kirmen Uribe
#34. She cursed under her breath. Eddie watched the EBs react, the younger ones recoiling with silent gasps.
"Better watch your language. There are children present. I think you're freaking them out."
"Sure, I'm the one freaking them out.
Hunter Shea
#35. Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.
Mark Pagel
#36. Grammar is nothing
But a slave-master of words:
Unchain your language!
Noel Shafi
#37. Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
John McWhorter
#38. Taking your language into my soul, feeling it separate from sentences to words burning with flight, 'til all I have left are meaningless letters pushing fire through my veins. Words can draw blood if you're very, very careful. - Broken Places
Rachel Thompson
#39. I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!
Vicki Baum
#40. Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. Living in Supreme Influence, your language is neutral and/or moving toward your vision rather than moving away. In other words, you speak about what you do want, not about what you don't want.
Niurka
#43. Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance."
"Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better.
Christine Feehan
#44. I think of the note.
I want to say me too.
I want to say I know.
I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It's my language too.
I want to say that.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#45. When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
Bahman Ghobadi
#46. You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class
Lani Diane Rich
#47. Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.
Helder Camara
#48. Riley swings the door open and grins at me. "G'day mate!"
I frown at him. "What the hell was that?"
"Me," he says, "trying to speak your language."
I push past him and plonk myself down on his sofa. "That was Australian.
Beckie Stevenson
#49. This country try to take everything from you. Your language, your food, your children.
Learn how to use chopsticks.
This country can't have everything.
Nicola Yoon
#50. Even when people can't speak your language,
they can tell if you have love in your heart.
Pat Nixon
#51. Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.
Paul Graham
#52. Everything in the universe has life and you must always try to sty in contact with that life. It understands your language and the world will begin to take on a different meaning for you.
Paulo Coelho
#53. When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
Eric S. Raymond
#54. In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.
Elena Roger
#55. What an unfriendly country," said Noxon. "Different time, different place," said Wheaton. "We think we're a very welcoming country. Generous and kind. Unless we don't like your language or the way you look.
Orson Scott Card
#56. The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language."
Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.
Shannon Hale
#57. So none of the young men we encountered during our season gave you hot pants for them?
Belinda! Your language.
I've been mingling with Americans. Such fun. So Naughty.
Rhys Bowen
#58. Once you break your identification with the system, with the authoritarian technics that are driving planetary murder, your language and your actions become very different. Once you identify with the real, living planet, everything changes.
Derrick Jensen
#59. Also, please watch your language. Everything you type is being broadcast live all over the world. [12:15] WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! - (.Y.)
Andy Weir
#60. Change your language, change your mindset, change your actions, change your life
Danny Stone
#61. In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .
Brian Tracy
#62. Racism is devious. It creeps into your thinking and then creeps into your language and like any other habit, it's hard to break. From Celebrity Racist Rants, in The Kindle Book Controversy,
The Prophet Of Life
#63. As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.
Ann Goldstein
#64. He brought both hands up and said, You can speak the old-fashioned way. I can hear you, remember? I blinked at him and after a few seconds brought my hands up. If it's okay with you, I'd like to speak your language. I smiled a small smile.
Mia Sheridan
#65. Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.
Elmore Leonard
#66. Watch your language, if you don't mind."
What a lady, boy. A queen, for Chrissake.
J.D. Salinger
#67. Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.
Nouman Ali Khan
#68. If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.
Jenny Weber
#69. What, playing with cards?" "It's a special kind of playing," said Twoflower. "It's called - " he hesitated. Language wasn't his strong point. "In your language it's called a thing you put across a river, for example," he concluded, "I think.
Terry Pratchett
#70. If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.
Osman Baydemir
#71. You don't need to be a poet, a performer, a writer, or a journalist to tell your story powerfully. You do, however, need to elevate your language in ways that will bring your story to life clearly and imaginatively for others.
John Capecci And Timothy Cage
#72. You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then would you understand.
Ilie Ruby
#73. I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
Dennis Lehane
#74. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.
David Levithan
#75. It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.
Mark Twain
#76. To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the flesh. Even god/is only possible through language.
Jude Nutter
#77. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where "traditional values" meant "hang someone." He did not have a problem with this, broadly speaking, but it never hurt to understand your employer.
Terry Pratchett
#78. You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.
Nick Earls
#79. Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful.
Victor Lodato
#80. You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.
Zig Ziglar
#81. There is a risk of becoming linguistically schizophrenic. Because your brain is so fluent in both languages, it is fooled into thinking that the structure you have put together in the target language is correct merely because it is correct in the source language.
Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown
#82. The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.
Kevin Allen
#83. To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
Polykarp Kusch
#84. I invented a book that listed every word in every language. It wouldn't be a very useful book, but you could hold it and know that everything you could possibly say was in your hands.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#85. It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#86. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.
Raphael Zernoff
#87. God gets it. When you reach out to him, he's not looking for fancy words that would impress your English teacher. He sees your heart. A groan, a look, a sigh - he speaks every language. He understands.
Max Lucado
#88. I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe ... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
Ornella Muti
#89. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.
Jo Walton
#90. I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#91. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.
Dean Karnazes
#93. The charm of your writing," Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, "depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter and literary language.
Nancy Mitford
#94. From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.
Justina Chen
#95. In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will "suck away the air" from those with a more passive nature, despite all the efforts of the teacher. It is also a special danger in large groups that you will hear your fellow students' bad pronunciation more than the teacher's perfected speech.
Kato Lomb
#96. Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
Eyvind Kang
#97. Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
Paavo Haavikko
#98. The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
Adam Gopnik
#99. Charming. Charming language. Same as your father. Bad language and hating budgies go together.
Louis Nowra
#100. The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
Toni Morrison
