“I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
“Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word.” — Andy Hollandbeck Copy Share Image
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak two languages you're bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first… — Victor Villaseñor Copy Share Image
I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and… — Avery Sunshine Copy Share Image
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong;… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation,… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Kelly reported, 'more video has surfaced showing this was not the first time Mr. Gruber called the American people stupid in an… — Alexander Viets Griswold Copy Share Image
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
