“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.” — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you a joke about languages? Abulfaz asked. A joke. Yes, okay. What do you call a Russian who speaks… — Jon Fasman Copy Share Image
“It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When we hear that "war" is made for "peace", or that "pain" is sought for "pleasure" or that "brutality" helps one "feel",… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm interested to branch out to Tamil because I know the language. If Bollywood happens, it will be a bonus, but I'm… — Naga Chaitanya Copy Share Image
Hmmm! well!!magic zz magic n it has no specific language dear!! it alwayz comes in a new language n gets mix with… — Sardar Hyder Abbas Copy Share Image
Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is… — Nahiyan bin Asadullah Copy Share Image
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
It's pretty sad when a woman can't understand any language but the language of love forgetting the language of Patience and dedication — Miss Leto Copy Share Image
“NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to… — Jenifer Mohammed Copy Share Image
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children… — William Labov Copy Share Image
“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says “We’re the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
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