There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“But sometimes you don’t say the word because you think a thing is ongoing when actually it is already over. The” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
God doesn't expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we're disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things.… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When we automated away the elevator operator function, who knew that all the descendants of those operators would become social media marketers,… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning. — Yuna Copy Share Image
Easy enough having big words in your vocabulary. But if you don't know how & when to use them, its pointless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religions, languages, history was made by humans to live with peace, comfort and prosperity not to fight and kill each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Wording is everything. I can't stand people who underestimate the power of a well-worded phrase, or use words incorrectly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions.… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand. — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact,… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Did there not cross your mind some thought of the physical power of words? Is not every word an impulse on the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
State unit of BJP will protect the rights of Tamil Nadu people and we will not back off from our attempts to… — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children. — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
