“Recognize, though, that graphs and equations provide an economical and effective way of expressing things that torture the tongue.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.” — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
“We might more of us say these words to others, and more frequently--how healing that would prove to be. "Look, we've had… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“To understand the difference between a good adverb and a bad adverb, consider these two sentences: “She smiled happily” and “She smiled… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. — Michel Thomas Copy Share Image
I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library:… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Words are a big deal to me. I'm verbal and visual and I'm always struggling to find a way to smash those… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“word is like a sword; you should be wise when to use it or it'll kill and ruin everything you did in… — A Thaselia Copy Share Image
Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart. — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours. — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at. — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails… — Slash Copy Share Image
You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
Don't believe a word they're telling to you. They let me down, where will I find where I fit in, I hate… — A Day To Remember Copy Share Image
“To conjugate (or modify the form of the verb) you follow two simple steps: 1) remove the –en from the verb and… — Dagny Taggart Copy Share Image
The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
