In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wrestling is a universal language. The moves, the facial expressions, most people understand. — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
“If words are the power of life and death, you just pointed a loaded gun at your head.” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“As a professional speaker and author, excellent grammar is crucial in my profession. Without the proper use of words and language, I… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human. — John Grant Copy Share Image
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like… — C. N. Annadurai Copy Share Image
“Yes. Da ,' I corrected. 'Say it again.' 'What?"' His voice grew husky as he repeated his request. 'Say yes— in Russian… — Shannon Delany Copy Share Image
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will… — John Gay Copy Share Image
You're going to come across people in your Life who will say all of the Right Words at all the Right times...… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“I take back my words and won’t ask you for anything, for I know that you will do the best.” — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are, what might have been — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language is the most powerful,convenient and permanent means and form of communication. — RMKATTA Copy Share Image
“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.” — Pip Williams Copy Share Image
A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores. — Anonymous Copy Share Image