I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly Copy Share Image
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“I'm graduating and she corrected my vocabulary the other day. I said I felt nauseous, and she said the word I wanted… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
Word. Im so sick with the verbs I use. The words to heal us. They love how I kill it on stage,… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in… — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured. "Such unfortunate language." Warner shakes his head. "Only those… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Professor . . .” Majime was moved by this declaration. “Words and the human heart that creates them are absolutely free, with no connection… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.” — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Getting her words first is something I'm never gonna for get ever :) — Dimitri McByron Copy Share Image
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.” — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it. — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
“Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone Copy Share Image
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
