He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
We can all be free. Maybe not in words. Maybe not with a look. But with your mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“it’s little things like that, the words of a song, which can give you the strength to go on.” — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
“It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Words could be empty. It was the return of a gesture that held meaning. And” — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.” — Dennis E. Taylor Copy Share Image
“...good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.” — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was,… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
“Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
“I didn't have the language to communicate that to this little girl -- or to communicate that beauty -- real everlasting beauty… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other. — Jennifer Abbott Copy Share Image
“Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more.” — Patrick Delany Copy Share Image
I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I couldn't tell what he was feeling, because I couldn't speak the language of his feelings.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? — William Safire Copy Share Image
Great men words is the laverage of a wise men and equanimity is the outcome of a men with a wise words. — James Copy Share Image
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream." — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.” — T.L. Crain Copy Share Image
