“There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden Copy Share Image
“The enigma of stuttering is profound. For in a moment, you would sound very fluent, and at other times, you would struggle… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words. — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia… — Horace Copy Share Image
“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
“Words are most important. I never wanted to write a song about nothing. After all, the impulse towards music is at its… — Kevan Duke Copy Share Image
It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent,… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.” — David Kyuman Kim Copy Share Image
“Words there are aplenty for bickering and hate, whilst words of love come far too slow and often far too late.” — Neil George Copy Share Image
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I… — Peter Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it… — Patricia Birch Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. — Philippe Sollers Copy Share Image
The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Because words form the foundation of society. Ideas create culture. Control them, and you can control . . . everything.” — Roseanna M. White Copy Share Image
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Words are empty letters without the actions beware of people who talk the talk but do not walk the walk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics! — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
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