Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Words don't go from the brain to the lips in time. That's what a stroke does to you... and that hurts me. — Lee Corso Copy Share Image
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions.” — Arthur Phillips Prague Copy Share Image
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
“Eloquence, like maturity, is a thing only developed through experience. Anyone can use words and use them well; only those devoted to… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
“My prose was clunky compared to his. I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. Matt's prose… — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be remember.Because all… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Guy1: Did you know that sugar is the only word in the English language that the su makes a sh sound? Guy2:… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“no one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. unknown” — ash Copy Share Image
“Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.” — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy. — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The awkward moment when you spell a word but it looks wrong, so you stare at it forever,questioning it existance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“What about me?” I asked. “Am I mean?” “You aren’t mean to me with words,” she said. “You’re mean to me with… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
