“Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.” AmericaFilmLanguageImaginePossibilityIndustryRight NowTragedyReleaseLandscapeCinemaLatinImpossibilityAsianLatin AmericaForeign LanguageLatin American Author:Guillermo del Toro
“If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.” IfsLanguageRight NowPhotograph Author:Lewis Hine
“What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do.” PeopleArtReasonFactsBigsLanguageDealsOpinionBloodRight NowArt IsAngryDiscussionOffensiveProvokingBig DealReflectingStirringBrashStirring Things Up Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear - I would not talk to Vladimir Putin. In fact, I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot. But I'd say to him, "Listen, Mr. President, there's a no-fly zone in Syria; you fly in, it applies to you." And yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now.” IfsThinkingKindEnoughFactsLanguagePresidentClearStupidRight NowOfficePlanesZonePilotsSyriaJerseyPutinNew JerseyOvalPlain LanguageFeckless Author:Chris Christie
“The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.” PastLeftLanguageBrainRight NowDetailsCommunicateEnormousComponentsSensoryHemisphereFloodingCollages Author:Jill Bolte Taylor
“But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.” MaySchoolFightingLanguageBecomingRight NowHigh SchoolMajorityCaliforniaTensionGangMexicanSan FranciscoEmergingFilipinoRacial Tension Author:Richard Rodriguez
“There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and I'm going to do it right here, right now because I just happened to come to it, that phrase - if you remember only one thing - there are 125 specific language recommendations in "Win" that can make a difference in your day-to-day lives.” PeopleIfsRememberWinningLanguageDifferencesHappenedOne ThingRight NowPhrasesMaking A DifferenceDay To DayPersonal LifeRecommendationsDay LifeDay To Day Life Author:Frank Luntz
“That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.” PeopleWritingReasonLanguageRight NowReason Why Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.” PeopleIfsShouldFirstsChildrenStillsSelfGovernmentCultureLanguageTeachIssuesHonorRight NowProgramDignityImportancePrioritiesSelf WorthSovereigntyTreatiesSustainingTop PrioritiesBarak Obama Author:Leonard Peltier
“Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.” KnowsWantStillsSometimesFeelingsLanguageFailingTroubleColdRight NowHappeningsSickInternationalEnglish LanguageDictionaryDeep DownTrouble Making Book:A Gathering Light Source: A Gathering Light