Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“I miss Latin. So much fun--all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English. — Henry Sweet Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy."… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“ Hey --if you guys are goin’ to the movie, c-c-c-can you drive me to the mall?” he yelled. “Sure, Mike,” Marlboro… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience. — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Words are like bullets. Once they are out, you can't control the damage they do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance. — apl.de.ap Copy Share Image
