“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.” — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
Words can cause the biggest wounds, but they can also be the biggest healers. — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco Copy Share Image
who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Words would ruin things. They brought logic and reality into the game.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style. — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Danger is the most dangerous word, because it encompasses all the dangerous words like gun, killer, etc.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If you think your words are the waves that come to destroy my boat. You're completely wrong. Your words are actually the… — Skylerbling Copy Share Image
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Andy Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. I do… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
