Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Guy1: Did you know that sugar is the only word in the English language that the su makes a sh sound? Guy2:… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions.” — Arthur Phillips Prague Copy Share Image
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“It was the word for a disquiet not otherwise definable, it referred to a miscellaneous crowd of things in her head, debris… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“no one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.” — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. unknown” — ash Copy Share Image
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy. — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The awkward moment when you spell a word but it looks wrong, so you stare at it forever,questioning it existance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
“I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be changed by Take the word of my pulse, loving and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“What about me?” I asked. “Am I mean?” “You aren’t mean to me with words,” she said. “You’re mean to me with… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“A young child does not give proper weight to words alone. His attention is secured when those words are punctuated by a… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
