“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.” — Sydney Jane Baily Copy Share Image
There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“To defend the indefensible, George Orwell once observed, political figures employ language that consists largely of “euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“That which, in the language of religion, is called “this world” is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To function in both the spiritual and the natural realms, we must be like people who speak more than one language and… — Jim Welton Copy Share Image
“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.” — John Broadbent Copy Share Image
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Often when you're an immigrant writing in English, people think it's primarily a commercial choice. But for many of us, it's a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The most powerful words uttered in our democracy are the people have spoken. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
“It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Indeed, which will be scattered and broken yet moment we language will be its hostile — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line. — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate. — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood. — Armaan Malik Copy Share Image
“Stars don’t need words to be heard; their beauty speaks for them.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple. — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image