Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen Copy Share Image
“I have hated the words andI have loved them,and I hope I have made them right.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.” — Juefan Huihong Copy Share Image
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words. — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“Yet SIOP, without advancing any explanation, puts “language objectives” on a par with “content objectives” and teaches both explicitly.” — James Crawford Copy Share Image
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects. — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the… — Jacqueline Fernandez Copy Share Image
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of… — Zibby Oneal Copy Share Image
You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages;… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“But life does not consist of words. Life consists of reality.” — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Copy Share Image
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“When we speak with emoji, we’re speaking a language that machines can understand.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand. — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
“You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
“One word at a time, makes a novel at the finish line." - Vik Tory Arch” — Vik Tory Arch Copy Share Image
“Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended. -Bound” — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
“Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
