“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience. — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here. — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they… — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by… — Patricia Geary Copy Share Image
In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':]… — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English.… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When you're on the court with guys that know basketball, it's a universal language for us. — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it. — Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimistcom Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade” — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“I've burned words and buried them, I thought, but I haven't tried the water yet.” — Allie Condie Copy Share Image
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are.” — Rusty Blackwood Copy Share Image
I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now. — Peter Pace Copy Share Image
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