My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Adventure:' there's a word that worked on us both like a charm.” — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.” — Paige Skyler Copy Share Image
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret]. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We… — James D. Nicoll Copy Share Image
There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain…The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear,… — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
“Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it… — Myron Uhlberg Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Words can be hurtful or inspiring. Be cautious and motivating with them.” — René Gilley Copy Share Image
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“Written words have power. They evoke emotion, and that emotion demands a response.” — Jenny Hayworth Copy Share Image
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. — John Donne Copy Share Image
And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. — John Hookham Frere Copy Share Image
Words hurt more than anything else can, becoz they last, sometimes forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I suppose you’re too stupid to have acquired a vocabulary sufficient to express your emotions.” — G.F. Gustav Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy! — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry” — Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Copy Share Image