“Syntax, like government, can only be obeyed. It is therefore of no use except when you have something particular to command such… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
Words are my toys, give shape to my imagination, if it's not torture yourself, how good the preparation of quotes — MaK_786 Copy Share Image
There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read… — Mithun Chakraborty Copy Share Image
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“fact, good communication is a lot like pasta sauce. The more you boil down and reduce a sauce, the more dynamic the… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, people meet our writing before they meet us; our writing is our first impression.People read our résumés, cover letters, proposals, and… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
With you I'm useless with words. As if somehow I had to learn to speak all over again, as if the words… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order… — Lauren Stamile Copy Share Image
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
To Kill A Deer, You Need Guns, Swords, Knives And Ropes,,, But To Kill The Dear, You Just Need Silence And Ignorance¦ — ShonaLovesU Copy Share Image
“Words weren't a solace, but they focused one's emotions into something more tangible; they were splinters that could actually be pulled from… — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we… — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
When people talk good things about you in other languages and assume you can't understand is almost as good as when they're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.” — Mark Abley Copy Share Image
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I know it are: what I write. But it does not know what the I am post because this language for me… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Words don't go from the brain to the lips in time. That's what a stroke does to you... and that hurts me. — Lee Corso Copy Share Image
