A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across. — Rosemary Clooney Copy Share Image
When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to… — Stromae Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head bobbed out from the grotto of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
I don't have words for her. I only know there will be not another Lata Mangeshkar. — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“stand for falling, that's the great words, because if you return the word the mean is better.” — Rio ardhityo Copy Share Image
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“When the tongue fails to convey what the heart has in store; Silence, becomes the language of love.” — Suhaib Rumi Copy Share Image
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