The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
“It is amazing just how many books in the library have words written in them!?” — Jon Hodge Copy Share Image
Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone's feeling more than you intended it to. — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience. — Song Kang-Ho Copy Share Image
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Don't waste words with people who deserve your silence, Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable… — Byron White Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
