If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a damn word you're saying. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've spoken about my frustration with how the language of efficiency and waste and fraud has become coded in some way as… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back.… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in… — Daniel Harms Copy Share Image
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“PUPIL: Are the roots of words square? PROFESSOR: Square or cube. That depends. PUPIL: I've got a toothache.” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand… But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“Words are the closest any of us can come to making something from nothing at all.” — Danielle Ackley-McPhail Copy Share Image
I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?' — Carmen Kass Copy Share Image
“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“is the only politician whose words are less than his deeds.” The” — Gerard Helferich Copy Share Image
" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world. — David Morrell Copy Share Image
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. — Edith Head Copy Share Image
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“My words were either going to be fertilizer to my growing dream, or they would poison it.” — Sarah Robbins Copy Share Image
