Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then multi-media is an entire lexicon. — Alfred Baijan Rasho Copy Share Image
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know. — John Grant Copy Share Image
I am not a word, I am not a line and I definitely not a girl that can ever be defined — Ciara Young Copy Share Image
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. — Zedd Copy Share Image
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I don't think as clearly as I used to, and I'm not as quick-witted as I used to be. Sometimes, my words… — Matt Mitrione Copy Share Image
The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will… — Wilfred Funk Copy Share Image
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I put the words into a flask and flung them out to sea. Flung them far out from me, made through myself,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want,… — Charles Benoit Copy Share Image
One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia"… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way. — Danny Mcbride Copy Share Image
“What need was there for words, when we had just shared the sky?” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. — Rupert Hart-Davis Copy Share Image
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language. — John David Washington Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
