Common Language Quotes
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True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.
— Jodi Picoult
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
They had nothing in common but the English language.
— E. M. Forster
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
— James F. Cooper
most great truths are expressed in the common language of life; some understand them, but most people utter them without knowing how much they mean.
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.
— William Clay Ford Jr.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
— Hilaire Belloc
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
— George Santayana
We are all connected by common threads in our experiences despite language barriers or geographical distance.
— Esha Young
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
— John Wesley
Language was a vast, complicated tapestry. The key to communication was finding a common thread.
— Tessa Dare
The Dream of a Common Language
— Cheryl Strayed
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
— Jasper Fforde
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.
— William C. Brown
Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
— Kathleen Raine
You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.
— Madonna Ciccone
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
— Robert Bly
Art as language ... in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.
— Theo Van Doesburg
The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.
— S.I. Hayakawa
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
— Ethan Zuckerman
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
— Brian H. Hook
Two nations divided by a common language.
— Winston Churchill
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
— Gioachino Rossini
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
— Peter Slezak
That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday, you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.
— David Sedaris
English, our common language, binds our diverse people.
— S.I. Hayakawa
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
— Jimmy Carter
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
— Christopher Lasch
The English and the Americans were divided by a common language.
— Jeffrey Archer
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
— Oscar Wilde
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
— William Bennett
The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language.
— George Bernard Shaw
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
— Alan Siegel
a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula
— Kate Atkinson
In lovesickness we had found a common language.
— Aspen Matis
For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.
— Janet Morris
