For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“the taming of words is more difficult than the taming of tigers” — Halina Poświatowska Copy Share Image
The ultimate onomatopoeia of truth is a word that makes no sound. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Language is ever on the move, and most days, I check out the 'Urban Dictionary' where anyone can invent a new and… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
There are some things in life that can be said using words, but the true explanations of feelings come from the heart — Katherinee27 Copy Share Image
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I set my words carefully upon the page; they have taken time to prove, to ripen and mature. I look and listen… — Liz Minister Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner… — Kajal Aggarwal Copy Share Image
How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I feel if I'm playing an athlete, I know I have to prepare. I need to get that body language right, I… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image