why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. — Morten Tyldum Copy Share Image
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison Copy Share Image
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to remove from it the very last flickering… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams… — David Amram Copy Share Image
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
When your thoughts are too crowded and you can't form the words, remember, tears are a language God truly understands. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase,… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
“1. Speak only when you have something to say. 2. Speak what you want to say and say it in the way… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I like being connected to young people, or younger people who are trying to figure out the language of film, bringing theorists… — Matthew Porterfield Copy Share Image
“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“...the opacity of a numeration system takes an important toll on language acquisition.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“Words are gifts that give to us all. Packaged songs and poems waiting to be unwrapped.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“Language is a code that I manipulate, to deny others' dominion over me" - Todd Brendan Fahey” — Todd Brendan Fahey Copy Share Image
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Do you only speak in questions?" "Do you only speak in SAT words?” — Megan Erickson Copy Share Image
Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
“Words, Isobel, have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. Remember that.” — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. — Gates McFadden Copy Share Image
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
