Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“No matter how many words we get, there's always going to be the last one, and one word is never enough.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Some people are impressed with a person, who has a large vocabulary. Im impressed with the person, who knows how to express… — Kaoru Shinmon Copy Share Image
I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
When we turn around and come face to face with our destiny, we discover that spoken words are not enough. I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Amorite ... it is the oldest Northwest Semitic language yet discovered.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural. — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828 — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.” — Tom Kane Copy Share Image