Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't. — Andrew Lakey Copy Share Image
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.” — Lanier Ivester Copy Share Image
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.” — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I never wrote sentences with words, they were painful feelings with unsaid emotions — Sushan Sharma Copy Share Image
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of… — Linda Nagata Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life.… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
“Words are free. It does not mean you should abuse them. Be kind with them. They will mirror your actions.” — Hadinet Tekie Copy Share Image
“After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself,… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Actually, that's one of the things I like most about my job: There isn't much of a day-to-day. For example, last week,… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
“Never discount another man's faith just because it is dressed in another language foreign to your own. Language can be used as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we… — Yuliya Snigir Copy Share Image
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