Read quote“Adisomad itu saya rasa sebuah nama yang universal.”
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Read quote“U nas jest inaczej – aktor to człowiek, który ma swój normalny, przeciętny los, ale może wypowiedzieć to, czego słowa owej wewnętrznej treści nigdy nie wyrażą, stając twarzą w twarz do twarzy podobnej.”
Read quote“English poetry is wonderful but it is not for me.”
Read quote“But I still speak German with a Lancashire accent.”
Read quote“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.”
Read quote“Art also is a kind of language – but it’s a language of feeling.”
Read quote“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”
Read quote“經之至者道也，所以明道者其詞也，所以成詞者字也。由字以通其詞，由詞以通其道，必有漸。”
Read quote“We cannot dispossess ourselves of our literary heritage. We speak the English tongue and write in the English language.”
Read quote“Saya rasa sebuah nama yang universal.”
Read quote“The “I” does not refer to the subject of the speaker in the same way as the name Bina Gupta does. The “I” is not a name.”
Read quote“Искусство говорить слова для слов всегда возбуждало великое восхищение в людях, которым нечего делать.”
Read quote“Language is not my private property. That is complete nonsense.”
Read quote“Upon hearing the Vietnamese women talking to each other, I thought that I heard the birds whistling and was afraid that I would never be able to learn the language.”
Read quote“結局、自分で理解してる言葉でしゃべることが大切なんですよね。”
Read quote“On ne trouve plus rien à dire alors on fait des phrases, on arrange la vérité.”
Read quote“I've been a bag boy a thousand times in five languages.”
Read quote“Drawing is a universal language.”
Read quote“We, the Georgian people, have inherited three divine gifts from our ancestors: our motherland, our language and our faith.”
Read quote“My only duty as a poet is to defend the use of language.”
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