“Words from another person cannot hurt you unless you give them power by taking them into your being, accepting them, and making… — Dr. Anne Marie Evers Copy Share Image
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show… — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
“Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows… — Larry Herzberg Copy Share Image
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have to watch my language. I think a lot about the words I use in both the public environment and the… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I believe Florida deserves a candidate who will work for Florida every single day and campaign for every Florida voter, no matter… — Carlos Lopez-Cantera Copy Share Image
“Speak, Madame; speak, queen," said Buckingham. "The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“A second theory agrees that our unique language evolved as a means of sharing information about the world. But the most important… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words. — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
“Those five domains—body, aesthetics or play, sociability, family, and work—are the domains we claim to be conditions for linguistic existence.” — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
When I was making my first record, I think I felt slightly trapped by my mind and my genre. I think in… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think celebrity is such a weird word. I see myself as, like, a personality. I hate saying the word 'YouTuber' because… — David Dobrik Copy Share Image
Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn’t you say… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“When words fail, silence will not be our answer. We will find new ways to speak, new ways to be heard, and… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“The best objects to think with are words, because that is part of what words are for. Indeed, it is a condition… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary. In England, they teach you words. Over here, they don't seem to… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image