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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Quotes by Francis Schaeffer

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as many people as possible.

Quotes by Francis Lawrence

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Quotes by Francis Arinze

Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Quotes by Flora Lewis

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

Quotes by Florence King

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Quotes by Fisher Ames

As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.

Quotes by Fiona Barton

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

Quotes by Feng Zhang

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

What makes humans unique is that evolution gave us the most incredible and sophisticated vision system, motor system, and language system, and they all work together.

Quotes by Fei-Fei Li

A different language is a different vision of life.

Quotes by Federico Fellini

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

Quotes by Federico Fellini

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

Quotes by Farooq Abdullah

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

Quotes by Famke Janssen

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

Quotes by F. Murray Abraham

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

Quotes by Fabinho

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Quotes by Fabrice Luchini

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Quotes by Ezra Pound

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

I love food. Food is my love language.

Quotes by Eva Marie

It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.

Quotes by Eugenio Derbez

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

Quotes by Eugenio Montale

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Quotes by Eugene Delacroix

Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.

Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Quotes by Eugene Wigner

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Quotes by Etgar Keret

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

Quotes by Etgar Keret

We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about period: people did speak more formally and floridly.

Quotes by Ethan Coen

Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

Quotes by Ethan Coen

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Quotes by Ernest Istook

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Quotes by Ernest Istook

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Quotes by Ernest Istook

I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

Quotes by Erland Josephson

All language is a popularity contest.

Quotes by Erin McKean

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Quotes by Erin McKean

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.

Quotes by Erin McKean

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Quotes by Erin McKean

I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and spend a big chunk of a year reading, or trying to read, 'War and Peace' as it was meant to be read, in Russian, with all that rumbly rocks-on-rocks poetry inherent to the language.

Quotes by Erik Larson

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

Quotes by Erik Qualman

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

Quotes by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.

Quotes by Eric McCormack

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Quotes by Eric Metaxas

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

Quotes by Erez Lieberman Aiden

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

Quotes by Eric Alterman

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Quotes by Enrique Iglesias

My first language is Gaelic.

Quotes by Enya

We speak Turkish at home, and I can speak the language. I have a lot of family there - I try to fly to Turkey once a year when I have holidays.

Quotes by Emre Can

For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.

Quotes by Emmanuel Lubezki

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

Quotes by Emmanuel Lubezki

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Quotes by Emmanuel Lubezki

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

Quotes by Emmanuelle Beart

Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.

Quotes by Emmanuelle Seigner

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Quotes by Emma Lazarus

The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.

Quotes by Emir Kusturica

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Quotes by Emily Carr

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

Quotes by Emile Durkheim

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

Quotes by Emanuel Cleaver

The language has changed. When I grew up and watched the campaigns of John Kennedy, even with Richard Nixon, there was a lot higher level of civility. Now we describe a disagreement as an attack.

Quotes by Emanuel Cleaver

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

For Elektra, I just wanted to be very clear. She's traveled the world. She didn't go to boarding school, but that's the type of girl that she'd be. So, I just wanted to make sure that I could bring that to her, which goes through the language.

Quotes by Elodie Yung

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.

Quotes by Elmore Leonard

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

Quotes by Ellen Page

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

Quotes by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

Quotes by Elizabeth Perkins

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Color is everything. It's another piece of the visual language to express what you're trying to say.

Quotes by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

Quotes by Elise Broach

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Quotes by Eliza Cook

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Quotes by Elif Safak

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

Quotes by Elif Safak

I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because I'm Belgian, from the Flemish part. Dutch was my mother language, and I learned English, and I speak French, too.

Quotes by Eline Powell

Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

Quotes by Elias James Corey

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek

My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.

Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

Quotes by Eiza Gonzalez

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Quotes by Edwin Morgan

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Quotes by Edward Tufte

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Quotes by Edward Sapir

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

Quotes by Edward Sapir

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Quotes by Edward Sapir

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