All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Be carful with your words. Once they are said they are forgiven, but not forgotten. — James Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words. — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs. — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it. Just live it. Nothing in life is to be answered.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.” — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
“Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Think before you say something, because one word can change everything. ;) — MarLeaneEver Copy Share Image
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
