If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much? — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.” — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what’s behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality. — Vera John-Steiner Copy Share Image
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“the judge Don Achille speaks up, with sly and devastating irony, saying that the whole history of mankind is the history of… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous… — M.J. Nicholls Copy Share Image
