“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling… — Robert K. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I loved the secret language of stupid fancy restaurants: I knew the question 'How do you want that cooked?' is actually rhetorical… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
Wizomania' is basically perpetuating the myth that there were ancient magical, wise ones in Oz, who set down all their magic in… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts.… — Brandon Jacobs Copy Share Image
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language,… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Actors are always being asked to speak. Sometimes there is a well-honed script, often there is not. But we are well-practised in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“On the first day of school, a first-grade teacher tells her class they’re not babies anymore. They have to use grown up… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to… — Daphne Rose Kingma Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t good, but it was something. Cath could always change it later. That was the beauty in stacking up words—they got… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Actually I don't watch a lot of films but when I do, I like experimental, avant garde, European and world cinema. That… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
“With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”. The real question is, “can you make words from… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I did not experience language deprivation. I did have access to language and communication, ever since I was a little kid. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
“Miss Lucy's called the bell o' St. Ogg's, they say: that's a cur'ous word,' observed Mr. Pullet, on whom the mysteries of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“Your mouth is the doorway to your destiny." -- Andrew L. Brown Your WORDS Have Power. Language Arts is the most valuable… — Andrew L. Brown Copy Share Image
“Why shall we talk? We talk to enrich our children’s vocabulary, and to let them use their vocabulary balance so their language… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again. — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
'New Mutants' #100 went out the door with over a million copies. It is the highest-selling last issue of any comic ever.… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.” — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational.… — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
