An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen. — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words. — Rirkrit Tiravanija Copy Share Image
“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.” — Bernard Bloch and George L Trager Copy Share Image
Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire. — John McLeod Copy Share Image
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
“That all may be one." We were born for these words, for unity, to contribute toward its fulfillment in the world.” — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language.… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
“Language, then, not simply as a list of separate things to be added up and whose sum total is equal to the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The arguments Rahul Gandhi puts forth in Parliament are rock-solid. He has a crystal-clear approach on many pertinent issues. He understands that… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,'… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone Copy Share Image
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.” — Ritesh Shrivastav Copy Share Image
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.” — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it. — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
“Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly Copy Share Image