Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Heaven and earth begin in the unnamed: name’s the mother of the ten thousand things.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A word hurts more than a punch, because the word left a mark that will take more time to disappear — Lockedupoet Copy Share Image
The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language.… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the… — Nas Copy Share Image
“My goal when writing is to engage the reader. Having my words play out like a movie - Rewarding. Having the reader… — Elizabeth Cook-Howard Copy Share Image
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Teacher asked the class to spell a 12 letter word! Kid Says: Masturbation! Teacher Says: WOW! That's a mouth full!?! Kids says:… — Stephanie Copy Share Image
I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a… — Moshe Sharett Copy Share Image
No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take youself on that kind of top that No Words can be able to describe yourself... — Anushilan Dawn Copy Share Image
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas. — William Labov Copy Share Image
“We’re destroying words—scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio (only when the words outperform silence). These” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
