Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words. — Butch Hartman Copy Share Image
“Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.” — Pamela Cummins Copy Share Image
I think 'understanding' and 'acceptance' are the most important words. — Gigi Gorgeous Copy Share Image
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship. — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them… — Ato Boldon Copy Share Image
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Look at me. I'm an immigrant. When I came to the United States as a young girl, I didn't speak a word… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Alas, Tis true that words are queer And yet my son, you need not fear. For in this volume can be seen… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“The idea of forming people out of grammatical clauses seems so fantastical at the start that you hide your terror in a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“See, what you do here is you work yourself away from the words, slowly shedding them until there's no more need of… — Lynda Rutledge Copy Share Image
When I lived in Argentina I had to change my sense of humour to fit in - I became a slapstick character… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
![“I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly condescending. His loss of language didn't mean he was any less a grown-up with adult feelings, experiences, worries, and problems. [p. 144]” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e55/diane-ackerman-1035_language_i-understood-the-therapists-were-trying_2065315.jpg)
