“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...” — Claire North Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Why do we say 'Have a great weekend?' That's just a spell. You're just going - I have no control over your… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these… — William Rowan Hamilton Copy Share Image
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
So much of the language that surrounds us - from things like economics, management theory, and the algorithms built into computer systems… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If I had to bring the whole conspiracy in all its forms into one area, it would be to manipulate people into… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“written words even more so than spoken ones—had a kind of lasting power, that if something was written down, it was somehow… — Michael Bailey Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
When I was playing with the Brooklyn Nets, we still called people soft, but we never equated it with being gay. It… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Mirroring makes speech possible; language relies on the reflective quality of I and you through which verbal interaction becomes possible.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health… — Mike Johanns Copy Share Image
“I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together. — Robert Forster Copy Share Image
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
My role as an artist helps me tremendously in breaking down each story. Pacing, layout, movement - having drawn a few thousand… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets—and it’s the secrets that… — R. Zamora Linmark Copy Share Image
Let me make something clear: I can't do anything in particular to make others laugh. I do what is necessary for a… — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
Actually, it's normal when you come to a new club and country: you need to get used to the language, the philosophy… — Granit Xhaka Copy Share Image
Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
