It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
You always have to be conscious of how your words can provide motivation to the opposition. — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Somehow you get past languages. I don't speak Mandarin. I don't speak fluent Italian. I don't speak German. But it's amazing how… — B. J. Armstrong Copy Share Image
I could write you a million words and not a single one of them would be able to describe how much you… — Bongalifa Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else. — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take… — Moira Katson Copy Share Image
“Though contrary to what the Old Man would have me believe, the vocabulary of servitude is not built upon my knowledge of… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams.… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight.… — George Armitage Miller Copy Share Image
The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Child-- "I can't be patient, that's not a word, so don't even say it mommy." Mommy-- "What?” — Mel Brown Copy Share Image
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.” — Lisa Glatt Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“A language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it.—” — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
“There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Words will never be enough to describe how much I love you and what you mean to me. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
