The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day. — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Word of the day is 'Ultracrepidarian' - someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. — Muniir Zero Copy Share Image
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to… — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on… — Tanit Phoenix Copy Share Image
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still… — Charles Kay Ogden Copy Share Image
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
“At night, a few lights marked port and starboard of these gargantuan industrial forms, and I filled them with loneliness. I listened… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences,… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
