The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history,… — Tommy Lapid Copy Share Image
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple,… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures. — Osamu Tezuka Copy Share Image
I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW.… — Kathryn Erskine Copy Share Image
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders… — Vallabhbhai Patel Copy Share Image
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a… — Beth Broderick Copy Share Image
“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you,"… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Every world has its distinct lingo, you gotta catch the right chord. Same language evokes different feelings, based on time and age… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire. — Hafez Copy Share Image
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“We'd had a hundred conversations with our eyes, with our senses, with our hands and movements, with not a word spoken.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
“I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho Copy Share Image
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. — Simon Le Bon Copy Share Image
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
