One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I did not experience language deprivation. I did have access to language and communication, ever since I was a little kid. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
“With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”. The real question is, “can you make words from… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Faith in Jesus Christ and a testimony of Him and His universal Atonement is not just a doctrine with great theological value.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
What the—Have you been crying?" Tohrment demanded. "Are you all right? Dear God, is it the baby?" "Tohr, relax. I'm a female,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
“Miss Lucy's called the bell o' St. Ogg's, they say: that's a cur'ous word,' observed Mr. Pullet, on whom the mysteries of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“Your mouth is the doorway to your destiny." -- Andrew L. Brown Your WORDS Have Power. Language Arts is the most valuable… — Andrew L. Brown Copy Share Image
“Why shall we talk? We talk to enrich our children’s vocabulary, and to let them use their vocabulary balance so their language… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again. — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
'New Mutants' #100 went out the door with over a million copies. It is the highest-selling last issue of any comic ever.… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.” — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational.… — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
“A look says more than words alone. That's a cliche, of course. But a cliche, also says more than words alone.” — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting. — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language. — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
