I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“I guess that's the other thing about words that you let out. When they form enough of a path, you get to… — Kat Yeh Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So alarming watching a movie based on a book, and realizing I had been mispronouncing a main characters names wrong in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer. — DJ Snake Copy Share Image
“Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place… — David Schwarzer Copy Share Image
Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had… — Alfonso Soriano Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad,… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'll sit at the computer at night and try to look up old Ojibwe symbols, and I always tinker with maybe doing… — T. J. Oshie Copy Share Image
I've always felt the easiest way to get to know new culture is through its food even if you don't speak the… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
The shortest word I know is I The sweetest word I know is Love N the person I always think of is… — Natalie Copy Share Image
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media - you only have to look at 'mansplaining' and 'milkshake duck' to… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world. — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
