Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you… — Tyler Kent White Copy Share Image
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by… — Horace Copy Share Image
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...” — Claire North Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
The minute you watch your voice back with its proper animated character saying the words, that's when you learn exactly what you… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why do we say 'Have a great weekend?' That's just a spell. You're just going - I have no control over your… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“written words even more so than spoken ones—had a kind of lasting power, that if something was written down, it was somehow… — Michael Bailey Copy Share Image
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap… — John Green Copy Share Image
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health… — Mike Johanns Copy Share Image
I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together. — Robert Forster Copy Share Image
When I was playing with the Brooklyn Nets, we still called people soft, but we never equated it with being gay. It… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image