“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.” MayLanguageTalkingTroubleHavensCommunicationDialogueSpoken WordEffective Communication Author:Ann Landers
“A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.” PeopleChildrenBookLiteratureLanguageNumbersHavensStudentsIncludingSurprising Author:A. S. Byatt
“Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style.” IfsLanguageEnemyStyleHavensTelevisionStandardsRegardGratefulDemocraticRadioPlusDeclineAccentsBe GratefulGrammarGuardianEnglish LanguageUsageMassacresMinusPronunciationStandard English Author:Clive James
“There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMeanBookUseFeelingsLanguageDifficultHavensEasierSpeechDown AndListsConclusionLove Feeling Author:Jenny Diski
“In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.” PeopleIfsMeanAbleAmericaPastLanguageWhiteGoneRightsHavensChangedRacismMonstersCivil RightsErasManifestationRacist Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The language of digital communication is a language we don't understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it's lawless and we haven't worked out how to make it structured or moral.” PeopleWayLanguageMoralHavensCommunicationInternetWestDigitalWild West Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!” DoeLanguageCrazyHavensDown AndSat Author:Evangeline Lilly
“The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia; internationally they haven't worked so well because people don't know the films as well as in the English speaking languages. So when it comes to putting the budgets together it's quite challenging. So those are the problems you have.” PeopleKnowsWellsProblemTogetherFilmLanguageChallengesHavensHotBudgetsAustraliaEnglish Speaking Author:Eric Fellner
“I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanFilmLanguagePrinciplesMediaHavensChangedAdventureExcitingDecadesExploringNew Media Author:Ang Lee
“Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been speaking French for a while now, but he's talking about doing his act in German. Haven't the German people suffered enough?” PeopleWellsEnoughShowsAbleLanguageTalkingHavensFakeAdsSpeaking French Author:Andy Kindler
“I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right.” HumansLongReasonMightLanguageHuman BeingsHavensConversationReason WhyAlsGrayTerrifiedParrotsPorpoises Author:John Michael Greer
“I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.” ThinkingWorldSaidDoneCultureLanguageFictionHavensCultures Of The World Author:Don DeLillo
“Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.” IfsKnowsWritingBeautifulMovingLanguageLinesHavensPoetReaderSkinsCleanSentencesTargetChasingEnglish LanguageJoyce Author:Teju Cole