The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
“Words can save someone’s life if they were put together with love and care.” — Isaac Nash Copy Share Image
My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't! — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.” — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
“My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote.… — Rob Riemen Copy Share Image
“This Bitter Language I know your streets, sweet city, I know the demons and angels that flock and roost in your boughs… — Elka Cloke Copy Share Image
When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
We can all be free. Maybe not in words. Maybe not with a look. But with your mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“it’s little things like that, the words of a song, which can give you the strength to go on.” — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Words could be empty. It was the return of a gesture that held meaning. And” — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other. — Jennifer Abbott Copy Share Image
“It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The value of your work is not in the dollar. It's in your word.” — Jennifer Ho-Dougatz Copy Share Image
