It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
It's scary to think that there are words meant for me but were never said to me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.” — Jeffrey Stepakoff Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“the Comprehension Hypothesis,12 elaborated by Stephen Krashen in the early 1980s. It holds that one factor above all is responsible for second… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
“Hello, listeners. In breaking news: the sky. The Earth. Life! Existence as an unchanging plane with horizons of birth and death in… — Welcome to Nightvale Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In my experience, Eurosceptics are likelier to have lived abroad and to have entered fully into other cultures than Euro-enthusiasts, many of… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin… — Istvan Deak Copy Share Image
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong,… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
“Who Dares Wins... I Dared... Words spoken by many, but realised by few..” — Ashton E. Silver Copy Share Image
“But Lord! once one began mouthing words aloud, how silly they sounded!” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown Copy Share Image
“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
That's Paul's great weapon, words. He uses them like other men use their fists. — Curtis Siodmak Copy Share Image
What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home. — Ken Hammond Copy Share Image
“someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
“Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few things I'd rather dirty up.” — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image