I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
“Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money.… — Stephanie Beacham Copy Share Image
“The “b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“had a theory that everyone has a relationship with words—whether they know it or not. It’s just that everybody’s relationship with words… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To describe an emotion is to feel with words. To communicate a moment of existence is to bridge the eternal and the… — Charles M. Heyworth Copy Share Image
Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Just come to Brussels after a Council meeting. Do you know what happens? Every head of government holds his or her own… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Words are thoughts encapsulated in sound vibrations. It’s not the vibration or frequency that gives a word complete power but the meaning… — Raz Mihal Copy Share Image
Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact… — J. L. Austin 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… — Karina Barton Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I normally do with long scenes is that I understand the emotional content and the words fall into place. — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a… — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
“You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words or just not knowing how to spell them. If we ever… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
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