A kiss is a charming deception planned by scenery to stop speech when words become excessive. — Spawasagir Copy Share Image
Wish some people would learn the meanings of the words respect and consideration. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from… — Jack Jason Copy Share Image
Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different… — Jack White Copy Share Image
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
“Communication is not just words; communication is architecture. Because of course it is quite obvious that a house which would be built… — POE the musician Copy Share Image
The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before.… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages. — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
“The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words—monstrous” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of words, words hurt even more than actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.” — Nazım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“I write because words swim around in my head like unruly tadpoles until I do” — Maureen Tuohy Copy Share Image
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