All Quotes

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

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.
‐‐ Emmanuel Lubezki

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
‐‐ Romola Garai

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
‐‐ Yann Martel

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.
‐‐ David Souter

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
‐‐ Godfrey Reggio

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.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hardwick

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
‐‐ Sebastiao Salgado

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.
‐‐ Josh Homme

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
‐‐ Nicholas Negroponte

The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
‐‐ Barry Lam

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
‐‐ Taye Diggs

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
‐‐ Carter G. Woodson

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.
‐‐ Suzy Bogguss

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
‐‐ Susan Rice

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
‐‐ Michael Chertoff

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.
‐‐ Frank Miller

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.
‐‐ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
‐‐ Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
‐‐ Alphonso Jackson

The largest issue with search is that we learned about it when the web was young, when the universe was 'complete' - the entire web was searchable! Now our digital lives are utterly fractured - in apps, in walled gardens like Facebook, across clunky interfaces like those in automobiles or Comcast cable boxes.
‐‐ John Battelle

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.
‐‐ Michael Greger

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
‐‐ Robert Reich

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.
‐‐ Craig L. Thomas

The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each.
‐‐ Simon Toyne

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
‐‐ Edmund Waller

'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
‐‐ Sholem Asch

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
‐‐ Buck Owens

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
‐‐ Nathaniel Rateliff

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.
‐‐ Jerry Yang

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
‐‐ Vince Vaughn