If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel,… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Twenty-six words are different from each other by agreeing on everything, but together can do anything, but twenty-six human beings can never… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Language is not unlike art in that words contain values of lights and darks, hues and tonalities, texture and sensuality. Words can… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
“There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“He can talk!" "Yes, I can speak any language you want, fly, and breath fire." Air Raid said proudly. "Can you do… — Jennifer Priester Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Why the words are called the way they are? Why certain sounds represent certain words, with their own meaning?” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
The language of politics is spoken in the first-person plural, and for Conservatives, the duty of the politician is to maintain that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language.… — Saba Qamar Copy Share Image
How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
“In Yuan" Alizadeh whispered to Kiram, "they have a word for a man who fights a darkness he cannot defeat." "What is… — Ginn Hale Copy Share Image
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
