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Every actor has a different language. Every actor has their strengths and their challenges, and I try to help them and support them and help them through their challenges as best I can.

Quotes by Lonny Price

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

Quotes by Liza Donnelly

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only...

Quotes by Lisa See

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

Quotes by Lisa Kristine

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

Quotes by Lionel Jospin

In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed alike, and almost all were white. The vast majority belonged to the same religion and spoke much the...

Quotes by Linda Colley

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Quotes by Lily Tomlin

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Quotes by Lily Tomlin

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Quotes by Lily Tomlin

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether...

Quotes by Lewis Grizzard

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Quotes by Lewis Thomas

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a...

Quotes by Lewis Thomas

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature...

Quotes by Leslie Jamison

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Quotes by Leonard Cohen

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

Quotes by Leon Redbone

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Quotes by Leon Wieseltier

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Quotes by Leo Ornstein

Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.

Quotes by Leland Orser

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's...

Quotes by Lea Salonga

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

Quotes by Lea Seydoux

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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