Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy."… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
When people use the word blud clapped moist ect... And they think there hard because there using them words it actually makes… — Melisa Copy Share Image
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he"… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“The main thing I want to show in this chapter is that there is no magic involved in building your own language.… — Marijn Haverbeke Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“I miss Latin. So much fun--all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English. — Henry Sweet Copy Share Image
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
“However, though we may never achieve perfect transparency, we can limit the impact of personal bias upon the process of interpretation by… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“The word may be mightier than the sword, but except for the s they are pretty much the same. Both are used… — Linda Stasi Copy Share Image
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not… — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a smile, a giggle can say more than words do; words are not that articulate. And if you use words where… — Osho Copy Share Image
“All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“primary love language was words of affirmation. He was a hard worker, and he enjoyed his work, but what he wanted most… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
