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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language. -- Moliere
My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. -- Famke Janssen
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. --
I can see that 'Switched at Birth' is attracting audiences because of the diversity and the American Sign Language as well. American Sign Language is such a beautiful language, and people want more of that. -- Sean Berdy
When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language. -- Philip Pullman
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas -- Langston Hughes
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. -- Larry Wall
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow. -- Criss Jami
40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense. -- Jonathan Kellerman
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway. -- Sarah Monette
I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language. -- Paolo Sorrentino
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. -- Maxim Gorky
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. -- Gore Vidal
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. -- Maya Angelou
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. -- Aimee Bender
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. -- Amisha Patel
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -- Henry James
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. -- Craig Thompson
I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful. -- Hakeem Olajuwon
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything. -- Maya Angelou
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language. -- Patti Stanger
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. -- John Holmes
I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language. -- Holly Black
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard. -- Maureen Forrester
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. -- John McCarthy
Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language. -- Marcel Proust
Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart. -- Joseph R. Bartlett
It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. -- Coleman Barks
I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language. -- Sally Potter
Emacs is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson
And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful. -- Mark Helprin
"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home." -- Chauncey Depew
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. -- Anne Rice
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. -- Erma Bombeck
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. -- Alice Sebold
Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything. -- Nate Lowman
In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. -- Douglas Crockford
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another. -- John Dryden
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful. -- Margaret Wise Brown
All German women are beautiful. It's not for nothing that we talk of the German "FrÃ¤uleinwunder." You don't get this word in any other language. -- Heidi Klum
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. -- Elise M. Boulding
I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence. -- Lynne Tillman
Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true. -- Jonis Agee
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm. -- Louis Pasteur
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. -- Aldo Leopold
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. -- Kim Edwards
Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful. -- George Sand

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