Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words? — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone” — Kenneth White Copy Share Image
I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
“It's not the words that matter but the feeling you put behind them.” — Akeo Furukawa Copy Share Image
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When people talk good things about you in other languages and assume you can't understand is almost as good as when they're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Words don't go from the brain to the lips in time. That's what a stroke does to you... and that hurts me. — Lee Corso Copy Share Image
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“Many people, especially in countries like the U.S. with a monolingual mainstream culture, think that being monolingual is the most natural way… — Barbara Zurer Pearson Copy Share Image
“They were proclaiming the end of the world, redemption through penitence, the visions of the seventh day, the advent of the angel,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world. — Gertrud von Le Fort Copy Share Image
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.” — Cochise Copy Share Image
“inability to decipher words came from neglect, but Eve knew better.” — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
