Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.
Larry HerzbergTags: language proverbs chinese culture china sayings
I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather's kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she smiled.
'I'm really not that thirsty.'
'What? What you say?' Her English wasn't too good. Now I'm seventy-three and she's just turned seventy. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she asked me today, smiling.
'I'm really not that thirsty.'
'What? What you say?' Neither of us has the gift of language acquisition. After fifty years of marriage we have never really spoken, but we love each other more than words can say.
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.
Jude DeverauxTags: style writing write different language strange writer author romances odd flowery
Aimlessly
It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No
One listens to poetry.
— from "Thing Language
I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are... seductive. And I like words because they can contain... fantasies.
James LusardeTags: imagination words sexuality books love women romance fantasy language sensuality men-and-women erotica women-s-fiction erotic-romance
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzTags: reading books language thrill
His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body.
James LusardeTags: words sexuality love romance language sex-appeal sensuality attraction seduction voices erotica erotic-romance men-s-voices sensual-sounds
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
Catharine A. MacKinnonTags: power language inequality oppression racism sexism sociolinguistics
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: words language english vocabulary goethe language-understanding
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
John GeddesTags: language writing-advice elizabethan writing-process writing-mindset
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