The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them. – J. M. G. Le Clezio
Maybe there’s some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there’s a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that’s not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don’t have a partner to react to, the body language is the same. – Isabella Rossellini
When the Warriors are on, my wife keeps away from me. I’m a rabid fan, and my language sometimes is not too good. – Jerry West
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be. – Irrfan Khan
Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words. – Jhumpa Lahiri
The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the ‘groundlings’ to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That’s the real guy. – Jon Favreau
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. – James F. Cooper
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. – John Donne
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. – Jeanette Winterson
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. – George Saintsbury
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child. – Joseph Smith, Jr.
I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective. – Jochen Zeitz
Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he’s big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You’d learn monologues and you’d recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent. – Ishmael Beah
Our English language really says if you’re not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I’m trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism. – John Shelby Spong
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. – James Fenton
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. – John le Carre
I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation. – Jhumpa Lahiri
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. – John le Carre
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it’s real, and it cannot be denied. – John Lewis
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned. – Jay Parini
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn’t that the banjo player’s Porsche parked outside? – Jackson Browne
I’m very heavily involved in the editorial post-production process, and the camera – it’s just such a big part of my storytelling language. I like creating the tension; I like creating the emotion through the movement of my camera, or the lack of movement through my camera, depending on what fits the scene best. – James Wan
The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it. – Judith Martin
To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell. – Joseph Brodsky