When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“She cared deeply about words and she hated their misuse as she would hate the clumsy handling of any fine thing.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's really no substitute for being able to sit across from someone, have eye contact, see and read their body language, hear… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
Drake and his camp are people of their word. I've never seen them say they're going to do something and not do… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Good, well-defined, well-honed art is not a foreign language. You can sell it to people. You just have to move your ego… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret,… — Walter Abish Copy Share Image
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I'm open to exploring different regional cinema also because each language has a different performance drama. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what words to use until my hand wrote them, though as I wrote, I saw every color, heard the… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“While you embrace my hips with your thighs. Words are speechless, yet our body's language speak all dialects.” — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger… — Djibril Diop Mambety Copy Share Image
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Kruziik Ahkrin Haalvut Lok Oblaan Qostiid Rein Norok Briinah Bruniik Sahrot Vahdin Zeymah Mul Kendov Kri (((Dragon Language))) — Skyrim Copy Share Image
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“I mentally began composing a list of words that began with F: Frey. Father. False. Friend. Frick. Frack. And some others.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Eventually perhaps the word bisexual will go the way of homosexual and fall from favor. Meanwhile we live and work with all… — Loraine Hutchins Copy Share Image
Learning another language and another culture brings up all kinds of vulnerabilities, and that leads to exploration and chemistry. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from. — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Why can't we speak another language, one we all agree on? Why when men look outside, they see houses, instead of the… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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