As long as the words in your mouth, it is your own; when they are once spoken, they are anothers. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic. — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Danger is the most dangerous word, because it encompasses all the dangerous words like gun, killer, etc.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language and really an interesting way for a brand to expand their consumer horizon. — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“You know, as stupid-ass delusions go, this one is pretty good,” said Sloane. “It’s consistent, it’s logical, and it’s fucking moronic. Gold… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The Most fucked up language which I have ever encountered is Bulgarian. (I hate the way it sounds)” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand. — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real. — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous. — Mary Jane Holmes Copy Share Image
The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Words can save someone’s life if they were put together with love and care.” — Isaac Nash Copy Share Image
My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't! — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
