The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Changing your entire message because you don't know how to spell one word!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words. — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your… — Lisa Jones Copy Share Image
“Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak… — Duo Duo Copy Share Image
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that… — Ernest Hogan Copy Share Image
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“That was…” he began. “No. I’m done. I don’t have the words. You sucked my vocabulary out with my cum.” — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have. — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more.” — Patrick Delany Copy Share Image
I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I couldn't tell what he was feeling, because I couldn't speak the language of his feelings.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? — William Safire Copy Share Image
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Great men words is the laverage of a wise men and equanimity is the outcome of a men with a wise words. — James Copy Share Image
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
