“Words are so heavy, she thought, but as the night wore on, she was able to complete eleven pages” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first. — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German. — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...” — Francis Chalifour Copy Share Image
“It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Sorry that book doesn’t come on audio, so you’re going to have to sound out all the big words.” — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
“His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
“Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS? ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS. MY FRIEND:… — KanyaACoffman Copy Share Image
“APOCOPE (APO'COPE) n.s.[ figure in grammar,when the last letter or syllable of a word is taken away; as, ingeni for ingenii.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
I made myself memorize how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in under 3 seconds when I was 6 years old because my sister told… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
English is still the unifying language in Sarawak and I use my blog and broadcasts to expose the outrageous deforestation which has… — Clare Rewcastle Brown Copy Share Image
While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so… — Zach LaVine Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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