The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
My grandmother, if she were still alive, she'd be very proud that I held through and did a film in Korean and… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“Words matter. Words shape worldviews. Words provoke action and reaction, which in turn provoke more words. Getting the words right is critically… — Helio Fred Garcia Copy Share Image
Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson -… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
And among His Signs Is the creation of the heavens And the earth, and the variations In your languages And your colors;… — Quran Copy Share Image
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's so much terrible stuff in the clubs: you see audience's minds being polluted by awful language and base thoughts. But perhaps… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of… — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
