When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“If you have to invent a new language, to explain something, you’re talking hogwash.” — Terence Thirteen Copy Share Image
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Child-- "I can't be patient, that's not a word, so don't even say it mommy." Mommy-- "What?” — Mel Brown Copy Share Image
“You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Knowledge flourishes where words of eminent men empower the cognition of young minds with enlightenment.” — Stephen TSJ Copy Share Image
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang… — Peter O'Donnell Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band.… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.” — Lisa Glatt Copy Share Image
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it.—” — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Words will never be enough to describe how much I love you and what you mean to me. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
![“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]” quote by Peter O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/373/peter-o-donnell-110405_chronology_on-the-whole-i-try-to-keep-modesty-and-w_197742.jpg)
