I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. — Francis Joseph Sheed Copy Share Image
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.' — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is "like trying to eat… — William Cameron Townsend Copy Share Image
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Content is getting its due respect. Our audience wants to see characters on screen and want to see actors play new roles,… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
I think Americans are really patriotic people, so patriotism is something they can understand. I'm very patriotic about Brazil, my country, and… — Jose Aldo Copy Share Image
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“We're pupils of the religions—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish . . . Well, the Christian religions. Those who directed French education down through the… — Louis Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“They hurry in; the wind bangs a door behind them. Rafe takes his arm. He says, this silence of More's, it was… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national… — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.” — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people,” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages. — Kristaps Porzingis Copy Share Image
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.” — René Girard Copy Share Image
Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
