Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“if we do not make the journey from theories and ideals to concrete situations, then the concrete situations will be lost under… — Robert E. Coleman Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them. — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
Change in language is hard to capture and when it's visible or audible; it is also hard for some to accept. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“Every time words are spoken, something is created. Be conscious of what you say and how you say it. Use words that… — Lucy MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made… — Petula Clark Copy Share Image
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word. — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“And there. The power of a word. The power of one word. That's where it all changes.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image