Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India. — David Linley Copy Share Image
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Wasing the where of needing,” she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“I might not be able to tell you the things you need to hear with the traditional words you need to hear… — K. Bromberg Copy Share Image
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When evaluating the suitability of a woman for a role, or using certain language in job advertisements, biases can creep in. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes. — Gertrud von Le Fort Copy Share Image
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned. — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice… — William Labov Copy Share Image
In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Like the college professor he was, Kittredge groped only for big words, and, finding no apt ones, he coined a lot of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When you hear people speak in another language: 6% I wish I could speak that. 94% Those bitches better not be talking about me... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
![“The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp…” quote by Thomas Bidegain](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8b4/thomas-bidegain-35111_antwerp_the-great-thing-about-europe-is-that-thi_505654.jpg)
![“[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a…” quote by Jeff Buckley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/124/jeff-buckley-2831_being-human_what-i-want-to-communicate-doesn-t-have_2979759.jpg)
![“The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.” quote by Helen Oyeyemi](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ed2/helen-oyeyemi-1658_catholic_the-language-of-catholic-mysticism-its-r_1219738.png)
