Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Growing up as a little, introverted boy, dance was the only way I could communicate. For me, it's the greatest language -… — Alyssa Edwards Copy Share Image
“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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“Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language,… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
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“[B]ooks, which can be consulted at any time, questioned again and again, and read into scraps, cannot be rivaled as a language-learning… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“I think that if we can find the words, and if we can find someone to tell them to, then perhaps we… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
They say 'A Picture' Is Worth A Thousand Words. But I think they're wrong. When I looked at yours, I was speechless... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language… — Pedro Passos Coelho Copy Share Image
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words… Statements are made, words or sentences are used. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
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“Nelson Mandela once said, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image