Best firsts & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

Needs Firsts Book Language Lines Levels Alive Reader Pages Finals

Author:Ali Smith

“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

Firsts Character Use Would Be Wanted America Speak Language Felt Century Comic Ties Frank 20th Century Idiom

Author:Jim Woodring

“There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.”

People Way Firsts Language First Time Mark Democrat Circles Checks Voters Ballots

Author:Al Franken

“The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.”

Firsts Language Morality Tradition Loyalty Representation Affinity

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one”

“Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.”

Firsts Actors Language Streets Expression Dancer Performers Mime Street Performers

Author:Denis Lavant

“In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.”

Firsts Mean Three Language Study Speech Thirds Various Arrangements Persuasion Hypnosis Power Of Persuasion

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.”

Way Firsts Children Language Given Ability Effort Too Much Praise Drawing Crude

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.”

Ifs Firsts Use Used Language Grows Innovation Following Recognizing Dictionary Unfamiliar Discerning New Words Lexicographer

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.”

Men Firsts Artist Language Simple Fellows Boundaries Obligation Welfare Fellow Man Endeavour Simple Man

Author:Pablo Casals

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.”

People Firsts Different Language First Time Painful Manners Midst Novelty

Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.”

Years Firsts Done Wanted Actors Language Term Acting University Italian Academic Exam Foreign Language

Author:Nick Offerman

“The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn't the first language.”

Firsts Real Language Theory First Time Aliens Nightmare Stockholm

Author:Mikky Ekko

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

Firsts Language Common Steps Communication Boundaries First Steps Common Language

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.”

Firsts Mean Made Law Language Simple Rooms Speech Presses Congress Amendments Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Inference Simple Words

Author:Hugo Black

“The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.”

World Mind Firsts Language Instruments Commerce E Commerce Bartering

Author:Paul Valery

“Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.”

People Should Firsts Believe Language I Believe Class Sun Should Have Marketing First Class Java

Author:Alan Kay

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