“The naive fall for sweet words; the intelligent fall for sweet actions” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.” — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Like golden apples in silver settings are words spoken at the proper time.” — Proverbs 25 11 Copy Share Image
It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition. — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
“accept the Word of Scripture and ponder it in your heart, as Mary did. That is all. That is meditation.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer,… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
It is strange that sword and words have the same alphabets and even more strange that they have the same effect if… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy." from Onyx” — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech. — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
“To understand the difference between a good adverb and a bad adverb, consider these two sentences: “She smiled happily” and “She smiled… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
