We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Silent vows were broken and words that can't be taken back but you mean so much more to me. Than anything I've… — Killswitch Engage Copy Share Image
“The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.” — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language… — James Avery Copy Share Image
Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
As a woman of colour, as a person who is a minority, I believe its important that other people know about my… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And… — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked… — Jack P. Shepherd Copy Share Image
Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“Sleeping.” The word came out with an adorable lack of anything resembling an L, closer to something you’d do with a broom… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how… — Yanni Copy Share Image
“No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life" -Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation;… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much the words themselves as what they symbolised; that someone out there was thinking of you.” — Maya Cross Copy Share Image
No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy… — Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir Copy Share Image
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a… — Cesaro Copy Share Image
Thousand of language are spoken in our world but the most important language is LOVE, indeed LOVE has no language — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those… — richelle e. goodrich Copy Share Image