To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet… — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
“Reading a book in the foreign language without using a dictionary? Are you sceptical? Don’t be! This is one of the keys… — Mihály Hevesi Copy Share Image
The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling… — Shari Wiedmann Copy Share Image
I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“... but I love language. It is a living, breathing, evolving thing, and language has power. Whether in a song lyric, a… — Lily Velden Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“Rather than being nonverbal, individuals with NLD generally present with abundant verbal ability, with many showing precocious language development and high levels… — Maggie Mamen Copy Share Image
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Old Luce. He was strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly had a good vocabulary. He had the largest vocabulary… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The words you use can destroy people's confidence or provoke their greatness. Use your words to lift your world.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
I don't go to church in England - although that's down to the language barrier - and I don't spend all my… — Miguel Almiron Copy Share Image
Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The… — John Cage Copy Share Image
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James Copy Share Image
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
Asian-Americans, we're not a monolithic group. There might be some Asians who are second-generation, third-generation, who may not speak the language that… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
“Sound had a freedom that no thought could equal because a sound made no absolute claim on meaning. Any word, on the… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image