She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
“Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in change and embrace the fact that English is probably the fastest-moving language in the world. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own… — Ted E. Brewerton Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The oldest cliché in the world is about "what's lost in translation," but you don't very often read much intelligent about what's… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
“The language of distinction ceases to be available; is no longer available. We must search CD Rom for meanings which once were… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The language of art is a 'parabolic' language, with a special openness to the universal: the 'Way of Beauty' is a way… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words,… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
“Mouths are longer than they are wide, to ensure words don’t come out sideways. Even the word “sideways” comes out straight.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
“When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.” — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy."… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he"… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
When people use the word blud clapped moist ect... And they think there hard because there using them words it actually makes… — Melisa Copy Share Image
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I miss Latin. So much fun--all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English. — Henry Sweet Copy Share Image
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
