What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The… — John Cage Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information… — Saul Gorn Copy Share Image
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself,” he said. “Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language. — James Blunt Copy Share Image
“We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again” — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Asian-Americans, we're not a monolithic group. There might be some Asians who are second-generation, third-generation, who may not speak the language that… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
“Sound had a freedom that no thought could equal because a sound made no absolute claim on meaning. Any word, on the… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody,… — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Your words are energy. If you don’t speak them, then you will drink them. Swallow that thought, but do not gargle it. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we’re in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image