“She copies vocabulary words down in a notebook because she likes the way they sound: Harridan. Pusillanimous. Talisman. Dowager. Enervating. Sycophantic . . .” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Of all the languages of the earth in which the human kind confer; The Master Speaker is the Tear: its the Great… — Ridgely Torrence Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate… — Doug Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know he didnt… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue).… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
When I meet fans who relate to Korean films and dramas even though they don't understand the language or the culture, and… — Lee Min-ho Copy Share Image
I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel… — Jean-Pierre Leaud Copy Share Image
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words… — William Meredith Copy Share Image
“He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language? — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“And I did not speak German well; I found the language harsh and guttural, my ear simply couldn’t find it pleasing, and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking… — Sebastian Arcelus Copy Share Image
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Women lost for words, guess they dont know English. No matter what language they speak, they all know dinglish. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“The word ‘God’ is a part of language and its grammar. Even if the whole world turns atheist tomorrow, the incredible arrangement… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
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