“There's power in the words that come out of your mouth. Now imagine those words coming out of your red lipsticked mouth.… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
If you said to me, 'Let's walk to the shop,' you'd realise what you'd said and feel bad. But it's just language.… — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature.… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course,… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“The boon of language is not tenderness. All that it holds, it holds with exactitude and without pity, even a term of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary"… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won.… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and… — Eve Torres Copy Share Image
When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You… — Robert Loggia Copy Share Image
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My work, my love of words, became my refuge, both when I was working on bilingual dictionaries for Oxford University Press and… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“they put their faith in their intellectual assets and attained material success with admirable speed. To speak in everyday language: they got… — Götz Aly Copy Share Image
“Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
“Jacinda, will you listen to me?" "Not if your words have anything to do with 'this isn’t right' or 'Jacinda, this can’t… — Dominique Eastwick Copy Share Image
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even… — Bill Granger Copy Share Image
“There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow.… — Jenn E Copy Share Image
“Language needs creativity and imagination to work, if not it will seem and sound stupid with its lack of sense and meaning” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
