Pastoral Resources

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.