The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to… — Jim Calhoun Copy Share Image
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“O dear white children casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words, So gay against… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
“There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don't think people get the same feeling from… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts,… — Arne Tiselius Copy Share Image
“The Latin word for sausage was botulus, from which English gets two words. One of them is the lovely botuliform, which means… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“The intriguing thing about playing Scrabble is that as soon as the board is set up in front of me, I don't… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
I love the idea of a shield law; I don't know of any journalist who doesn't love the idea of a shield… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Now no one is going to make you talk--possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I started a company in 2005 for language services called Blue Elephant. We handle translation and interpretation services in over 120 languages. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“I don't know if it becomes literature...I just know the two added words cause me to look at the ordinary sentences differently.… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“In this case, consulting the dictionary would simply mean discovering what one already knew, Dictionaries only provide information that is likely to… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our… — Vellupillai Pirapakaran Copy Share Image
“Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
