Shaping Languages Quotes

#1. Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don't read because there are no interesting writers.

Enock Maregesi

#2. One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

Debbie Gibson

#3. Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Paul McCartney

#4. Gratitude is like that. It transforms. It is such a force that it cannot coexist with selfishness, with discouragement, with discontent.

Rachel Jankovic

#5. With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

Chris Metzler

#6. Like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony ...

Mohsin Hamid

#7. Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

Adrienne Shelly

#8. That's how hospitals get you. You go in to visit and before you know it they got a camera stuck up your butt and they're looking' to find poloponies.

Janet Evanovich