Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results. — William James Copy Share Image
You don't need words to speak, getting lost in each others eyes can be communication as well, because what that is signaling,… — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to… — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
3 words, 8 letters, 3 syllables, 5 vowels, 3 consonants, 2 nouns, one emotion, many meanings, a big lie, a rare truth: I LOVE YOU! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Words don't have power to hurt you unless they are said by the person,behind or infront of you,who means alot to you..!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Language is the proper way to communicate, followed closely by five balled up fingers forming a fist and flying at a face.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Japanese verbs, for example, are agglutinative. The word ikasetakunakatta can fairly easily be divided into the five pieces – go-cause-want-not-past – that… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered… — Cole Swensen Copy Share Image
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something. — Molefi Kete Asante Copy Share Image
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem… — Christian Karlson Stead Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the… — Eddy Peters Copy Share Image
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“The process of continually rereading and drawing out new meanings from words would not have been possible unless the words themselves were… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English… — P J Wingate Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy. And I needed to use… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
It's been hard for me to nail visual language and personal style because I like so many different things. — Kelela Copy Share Image
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I can't stand musicals, but I love dance because it's a corporeal language that can be so rich and sometimes so unusual. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no… — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image