I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that… — Marco Polo Copy Share Image
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Carmen's first language is Spanish. I only speak Spanish with her... and with Alec she is smart enough to know that she… — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
“We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is… — Christopher Page Copy Share Image
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Obviously I speak English well, that was not a major problem for me, but it's always different the confidence you have speaking… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
“My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart,… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
All I care about is that the audience should remember me for the character I play. I want to be part of… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. “Life and death is in the power of the… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes… — Beck Copy Share Image
“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through… — Lenora Champagne Copy Share Image
In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take… — Sjon Copy Share Image
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whatever God's Word says I am - that's what I am! Whatever His Word says I can do - with His help… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything. — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself… — Ari Marmell Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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