“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn’t you say… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think celebrity is such a weird word. I see myself as, like, a personality. I hate saying the word 'YouTuber' because… — David Dobrik Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Everything that is true is authentic. When we were born, we did not have knowledge. As soon as we have language, we… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The best objects to think with are words, because that is part of what words are for. Indeed, it is a condition… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When words fail, silence will not be our answer. We will find new ways to speak, new ways to be heard, and… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary. In England, they teach you words. Over here, they don't seem to… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.” — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter to me where am I going. Language is not a barrier for me, I can go anywhere with my… — Disha Patani Copy Share Image
I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe has life and you must always try to sty in contact with that life. It understands your language… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
