The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“A look says more than words alone. That's a cliche, of course. But a cliche, also says more than words alone.” — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have been in countries where I don't know a word of the language. I tried to practice my French as much… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
“She had imagined her mind would be bare before his, naked under a scorching desert sun, with neither shelter nor refuge. Instead,… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“What type of sentence (I asked myself) will an absolute mind construct? I considered that even in human languages there is no… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think,… — F. David Peat Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words mean nothing, and can be said by anyone. Actions mean everything, and are what you can truly use to see how… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in change and embrace the fact that English is probably the fastest-moving language in the world. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own… — Ted E. Brewerton Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The language of art is a 'parabolic' language, with a special openness to the universal: the 'Way of Beauty' is a way… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words,… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
“Mouths are longer than they are wide, to ensure words don’t come out sideways. Even the word “sideways” comes out straight.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.” — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
