Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“A perfect word left behind in an imperfect World who does not know what it is capable of” — Rosemarie Yusen Copy Share Image
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
“I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations. — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
A teacher asked her class for sentences using the word beans.. My father grows beans, said one student. My father cooks beans,… — Butterfly_Kisses Copy Share Image
Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Life is built on our daily utterances. Never declare any wickedness of some sort upon your life, words create a reality.” — Kabelo Mabona Copy Share Image
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the… — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
“In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
