Use language that displays confidence. Many men and women unintentionally use language that displays a lack of confidence.
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Learn a language. If you’re both sitting at the computer at a loss for new conversation topics, you might as well open a language learning program and go through it together, lesson by lesson.
The opposite of language is not silence but space.
The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination…
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Learn a language. If you’re a wine lover, chances are you love traveling to Europe to visit your favorite wine regions. Don’t be the typical tourist who refuses to speak the native language.
The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print--the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively…
Call it a "member" or anything other than its anatomical designation.
Come up with a word or phrase that is a secret call for sex.
I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean. Neither more nor less.
Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.
Patois IS a language. "Work" is not sung in gibberish.
No matter what language you speak or what part of the world you’re from, there’s a universal language of laughter, smiles, and love.
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.
He's bi-lingal. It's a very good sign if he speaks more than one language because it implies intelligence and effort: he's willing to work hard for rewards.
Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.