“But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When I choose a club, it's not for the money, language, or the weather - those things aren't important. — Lukas Podolski Copy Share Image
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross… — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two… — Dakota Blue Richards Copy Share Image
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived,… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Was bad language used?” asked Colonel Melchett. “It depends on what you call bad language.” “Could you understand it?” I asked. “Of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly he was aware of a man clothed in white who watched him through the falling water of the fountain. As… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
