One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins Copy Share Image
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say,… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I like Robo Shankar - he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his… — Vivek Copy Share Image
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes… — Rachael Leigh Cook Copy Share Image
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It was totally different. I am living in Sao Paulo and then I'm in Ukraine living in a small city called Donetsk.… — Willian Copy Share Image
I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really… — Andrew Heller Copy Share Image
We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“If you’ve got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren’t certain what they know, concreteness is… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive." - on the making of the Oxford… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body… — Suzanne Yoculan Copy Share Image
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity” — Brian Kiteley Copy Share Image
Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour:… — Patrick Hamilton Copy Share Image