There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
“In Yuan" Alizadeh whispered to Kiram, "they have a word for a man who fights a darkness he cannot defeat." "What is… — Ginn Hale Copy Share Image
“The Word Wonder or dream from distant land I carried to my country's strand And waited till the twilit norn Had found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Oh, good,” he muttered. “We’re going to discuss it now.” “No discussion,” she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“But since you bring it up, Didier, you know what I think of language? That it’s a fake horizon and there’s something… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“She cared deeply about words and she hated their misuse as she would hate the clumsy handling of any fine thing.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There's really no substitute for being able to sit across from someone, have eye contact, see and read their body language, hear… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm open to exploring different regional cinema also because each language has a different performance drama. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
Drake and his camp are people of their word. I've never seen them say they're going to do something and not do… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what words to use until my hand wrote them, though as I wrote, I saw every color, heard the… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“While you embrace my hips with your thighs. Words are speechless, yet our body's language speak all dialects.” — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger… — Djibril Diop Mambety Copy Share Image