Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“This sentence is filled with unnecessary words, phrases and rhetorical throat-clearing devices and is marked by a generally bombastic tone.” — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Quote' is a verb; 'quotation', a noun. Lazy tongues attached to empty minds have taken the distinction from us. Before we lament,… — D.F. Downing Copy Share Image
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like,… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity,… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had to struggle with the language. I can understand Hindi now, but I still can't communicate. And things get lost in… — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget. — William W. Johnstone Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Feelings Were Much More Important Than Words.. But, Now A Days Words Have Great Importance.. Since People Dont Understand Feelings..! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“You English words? I know you: You are light as dreams, Tough as oak, Precious as gold, As poppies and corn, Or… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“skill-building” approaches, which feature explicit instruction in the formal aspects of language, have a poor record of success. Hence the dismal results… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome. — Jaejoong Copy Share Image
I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
My dream, play in NBA. When I come here, very difficult for me. It's new country, new language. But is still basketball… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
“[T]he time spent on language learning is lost unless it reaches a certain—daily and weekly—concentration.” — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
“A photo can speak more than what a thousand words can speak indeed a painting can speak more than what a thousand… — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.” — Kate DiCamillo 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
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
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
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