Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The four cruellest words in the English language are "I told you so.” — Lord Salisbury Copy Share Image
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed. — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
When I was young, always in Serbia there were some telenovelas on television, Spanish language. Then you listen, listen, listen, you watch… — Dusan Tadic Copy Share Image
“Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.” — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“A language has genius. Some works translate well, others are untranslatable. Molière is effective only in French. Without knowing Arabic nobody has… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave… — Cheryl Matthynssens Copy Share Image
They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to… — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each… — Jef I Richards Copy Share Image
The words that I say and things that I do are different than what I mean.~~~ — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I always choose to use the word often instead of (unintelligible). Just changing it up, changing it up. — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself. — Harold E. Hughes Copy Share Image
“Through His Word we fall in love with Him more, and because of this we love more.” — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light. — Valeria Lukyanova Copy Share Image
Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
