I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I realized that I was a bad listener: I paid too much attention to the words.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Just sing me your song. Teach me the words. Tell me what you know.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India. — David Linley Copy Share Image
“Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says “We’re the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When evaluating the suitability of a woman for a role, or using certain language in job advertisements, biases can creep in. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish I gotta holler just to be heard With every word,… — Lin Manuel-Miranda Copy Share Image
My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
“Dogs being great linguists, she quickly picked up English, far more quickly than I picked up German, so we understood each other… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. — Bill Hayden Copy Share Image
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Love is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks. — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed. — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
