When I was making my first record, I think I felt slightly trapped by my mind and my genre. I think in… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think celebrity is such a weird word. I see myself as, like, a personality. I hate saying the word 'YouTuber' because… — David Dobrik Copy Share Image
Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn’t you say… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“When words fail, silence will not be our answer. We will find new ways to speak, new ways to be heard, and… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The best objects to think with are words, because that is part of what words are for. Indeed, it is a condition… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary. In England, they teach you words. Over here, they don't seem to… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.” — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
