The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
“I have two words for you. (Terri) Oh, yeah? (Josie) Whatever- (Terri) That’s one word. (Josie) –bitch. (Terri)” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...” — Claire North Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“It's probably the closest thing resembling research I ever do (except for this last book, which took more traditional research) - listen… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Talking, talking, spinning like a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Vielleicht ist es so, dass nur das, was nicht ausgesprochen worden ist, durchlebt werden muss.” — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
A person who thinks yelling words such as 'yaaaah! 'oooooh' 'meeeeee' and 'boooooooo' are hard work. — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
. and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learnd the language of another world — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done. — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
