The oldest, shortest words - yes and o - are those which require the most thought. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.” — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
“It's a four-letter word for a part of the human anatomy but it's not m-i-n-d.” — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
As an actor, your whole body needs to be expressive, and unless you know the language, your expressions will not match the… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
“...today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke. — Hephzibah Menuhin Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. In the end . . . past honor, past life, past caring . . . In the end will be the Word.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Your words must match your actions in this world. What you put out is what you'll receive. Only you know if your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They hurry in; the wind bangs a door behind them. Rafe takes his arm. He says, this silence of More's, it was… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“We're pupils of the religions—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish . . . Well, the Christian religions. Those who directed French education down through the… — Louis Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need… — Andrew Curry Copy Share Image
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