Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“I’m honoured beyond words that I was your first.” And last, but she didn’t know that yet.” — R.L. Mathewson Copy Share Image
“No words that I can recall, just primitive despair. No time. No thought. Just feeling. Walsh” — David Bagby Copy Share Image
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every year, I send 1,000 students to China to study Chinese history, language, and culture. — Lucio Tan Copy Share Image
If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland. — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Words have power. And when you put them out there, it makes them real for other people, and maybe it changes the… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult… — William Osler Copy Share Image
You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
I could give you example after example, of where the language of the far Right, driven by Islamophobia, has now become institutionalised… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions. .. Try not to use words… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the… — Jeff Stilson Copy Share Image