No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To be able to use the Japanese tongue as a Japanese uses it, one would need to be born again, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned,… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Susan Griffin describes it as a time when "there is no intrinsic authority to my words." "I...clean off my desk. I make… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The power that words can hold is nothing short of amazing. They can hurt you, and they can heal you. Or, they… — Carian Cole Copy Share Image
Love a word that fills the stomch with butterflys when said. A word more missed used then truly what it was ment… — Marcus White Copy Share Image
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory… — Matthew Dunlap Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I think anyone who's been around me knows that I left home at 15 alone, to go to a country where I… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action. — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
As cliche as it sounds, there's a reason why people always say that music has no language; it transcends language barriers. — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
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