The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are.” — Rusty Blackwood Copy Share Image
I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now. — Peter Pace Copy Share Image
Actually, it's normal when you come to a new club and country: you need to get used to the language, the philosophy… — Granit Xhaka Copy Share Image
“They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets—and it’s the secrets that… — R. Zamora Linmark Copy Share Image
Let me make something clear: I can't do anything in particular to make others laugh. I do what is necessary for a… — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
“There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health… — Mike Johanns Copy Share Image
“I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap… — John Green Copy Share Image
You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together. — Robert Forster Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“There are some words that seem to well up from inside me without reason. I will be walking along an empty hallway,… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word.… — Harriet Doerr Copy Share Image
I just see myself as someone who has a bit of a way with words, basically. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade” — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I've burned words and buried them, I thought, but I haven't tried the water yet.” — Allie Condie Copy Share Image
When you're on the court with guys that know basketball, it's a universal language for us. — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it. — Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimistcom Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
