Action is the universal language of success. - Steve Maraboli In future, brainwave is a media of universal language. - Toba Beta Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. - William Hazlitt Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language. - William Saroyan Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. - Enrique Iglesias Everybody knows love is a universal language, but not many people know it only has 22 letters. Love can say more with 22 letters than English can with 26. - Jarod Kintz What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrou...

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? - Hugo Ball I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn. - Stephanie Beacham He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language. - Stephen King I passed a large dark room where a wall-mounted flat-screen with sound muted showed an overweight rapper performing rap hand gestures, which are supposed to project masculine cool but in fact look like a pointlessly violent version of deaf sign language. - Glen Duncan Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense ...

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. - Lynn Abbey In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America. - Gael Garcia Bernal We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. - Chuck Palahniuk we swim in our second language, we breathe in our first - Adam Gopnik There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. - Marilyn Hacker They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "...

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom. - Ronald Reagan Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul? - Julian Barnes I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. - David Remnick In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! - Ivan Turgenev

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don't like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven's sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs - Stephen Fry And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. - Margaret Spellings

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart. - Samuel V Chamberlain Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. - Simon Lebon There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play. - Connie Sellecca

She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language. Love. Help. Rape. Stop. Then. - Jodi Picoult Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman. - William Hazlitt I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that. - Thora Hird Speaking the Lord's name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord's name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter. - Spencer W Kimball When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but...

So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind of electricity buzzing up toward you, Your Excellency. It just happens, the way you get erect around girls wearing tight jeans. Except here what happens is that your brain starts to hum. - Aravind Adiga The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations. - Paulo Coelho Am I the star in this story or you?" Blake wrinkled his nose and chuckled. "Was that a bad analogy? I meant we're the star, Livia. Us. This." He shrugged his shoulders like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Us being in the same atmosphere is either a great cos...

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. - Eric Allin Cornell In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. - Hu Shih I must stick with Chinese language films. - Zhang Yimou