A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.” — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“And that we call enos ermarf." "What?" I didn't see what he was pointing at. "That. The way the lake curves forward… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
“Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.” — Thea van Diepen Copy Share Image
Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
My language is part of my culture, and I'm not gonna have someone change that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line. — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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