The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.” — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it. — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone Copy Share Image
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed learning High Valyrian. People will know it's a fully operational language. It's very gratifying to unpick. — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“There is something in that, I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip,… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
“It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.” — Ritesh Shrivastav Copy Share Image
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. — George Will Copy Share Image
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
So many words I could use, yet none seem to be able to describe exactly how I feel about yo — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
