The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language… — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business… — Shawne Merriman Copy Share Image
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey. — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
My English, I'm still learning. I'm still learning how to use my words. People want to hear what I have to say… — Jan Blachowicz Copy Share Image
It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
“This Bitter Language I know your streets, sweet city, I know the demons and angels that flock and roost in your boughs… — Elka Cloke Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote.… — Rob Riemen Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“the signifieds butt-heads with the signifiers and we all fall down slackjawed to marvel at words while across the sky sheet impossible… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..." — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that… — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace… — Sudakshina Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“What is Logicke but the highe waie to wrangling, contayning in it a world of bibble babble. Need we anie of your… — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh… — Kevin Dillon Copy Share Image
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour:… — Patrick Hamilton Copy Share Image
With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant… — Maturin Murray Ballou Copy Share Image
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Words are all we’ve got. Besides, of course, actions. But you can’t print out and read actions. Actions also don’t carry ideas… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen… — Sharon Anthony Bower Copy Share Image
