For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. — H. R. Haldeman Copy Share Image
“September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at until you understood them, they couldn't change halfway through… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Florid language frequently leads to merry lovemaking when accompanied by the correct diction, syntax, and timing.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language. — Hannah Teter Copy Share Image
We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole… — Kim Hunter Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is… — David Denby Copy Share Image
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal? — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“And however perfectionist you tried to be, in the end words were alive, in constant flux. No dictionary could ever achieve true… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
*Fucking* I just a fucking word that you can fucking put any fucking where in a fucking sentence and it fucking still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.” — John White Copy Share Image
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“I never studied linguistics, Yet I became a linguistic enigma. The sun never studied nuclear fusion, Yet it is our planet's nuclear… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the lesser-known ways of making new words is to form a blend - and a blend is when you run… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Love is not a thing to be explained or to be taught, love can only be felt and its the language of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
People appreciate those who've enabled them to watch highly entertaining movies by demolishing the language barrier. — Rajesh Khattar Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Words are born in thought, leaving lips, they acquire soul in the ears, yet sometimes this auditory magic does not make it… — Paulo Lins Copy Share Image
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee… — Roy Clark Copy Share Image
“We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear." "Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?" "Poor grammar skills.” — Lita Burke Copy Share Image
I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be… — Paul O'Neill Copy Share Image
The power to express love or hate. The power to give or take. The power to heal or harm. Choose your words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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