We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
There's so much terrible stuff in the clubs: you see audience's minds being polluted by awful language and base thoughts. But perhaps… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will… — Arthur E. Kennelly Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of… — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
“We need the word of God to grow in our faith but we need the voice of God to survive the odds… — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
“Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've always been able to copy the mannerisms and body language of everyone around me. — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
