“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
If you're talking about industry, I've never restricted myself to Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, or Kannada. Whichever the language is, from Swahili to… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance… — Stephen Boss Copy Share Image
I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“To build a software that your users understand, capture the language of that users in a class diagram.” — Michael Jesse Chonoles Copy Share Image
It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps guide the world. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“We both think love (and language) are interesting but taffylike diversions: soft, simple, perhaps a little salty. If either one takes over… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
“When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.” — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
“Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue. — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of… — Adam Brown Copy Share Image
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like,… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Hmmm! certain words have no definitions for them like politics and it is so cause people don't want to waste their time… — Sardar Hyder Abbas Copy Share Image
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
