“Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“...every language without exception has some, but not all, of the characteristic features of lies--if no other, then at least the feature… — Harry G. Franfurt Copy Share Image
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail. — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
“Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.” — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“The language I learned was pretty, full of passivity and silence. I had no proper language for the issues of blood and… — Beth Bagley Copy Share Image
We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Most people understand that the more words children are exposed to, the stronger their vocabularies will be. But fewer people are aware… — Dorothy Bush Koch Copy Share Image
Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the… — Henry Winter Copy Share Image
I try to pay attention to language. I think that as a general rule, we as writers talk too much and we… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Language is not primarily informational but revelatory. The Holy Scriptures give witness to a living voice sounding variously as Father, Son and… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
My mother is Bosnian. Obviously I understand the language. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, it's all the same. — Bernard Tomic Copy Share Image
I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies… — Manil Suri Copy Share Image
I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but… — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.” — Steve Chandler Copy Share Image
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo?… — Morey Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
“On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
I have learnt that words are permanent, hearts cannot be unbroken and saying I'm sorry cannot retrieve angry words that I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words are so many things, a weapon both for destroying and healing but sometimes silences is needed, that way you can really… — AmyD Copy Share Image
