The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language… — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business… — Shawne Merriman Copy Share Image
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey. — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“Language is a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes to make the bears dance, when what we long for is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have to cry out here that language is all we have for the delicacy and truth of telling, that words are… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open… — Selma James Copy Share Image
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
When listening to politicians, distinguish certain words. Look out for the expansive use of 'terrorism' and 'extremism.' Be alive to the fatal… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Turn down the daily noise and at first there is the relief of silence. And then, very quietly, as quiet as light,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Why writers stumble over words when talking? Because we have so much to say, our mouths can't keep up with our brains.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...” — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Music has always been a big part of my life, it moves me, it educates me and it makes me grow. It… — Planningtorock Copy Share Image
“Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
“You was in all sorts of places, huh?” “Yeah, I was. Saw the world.” “What’d you think of it?” “Different languages, same… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Writing word after word represents a type of power, the sort of command that a person amasses slowly with thoughtful inquiry.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they've seen before. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in words, no matter if strung together by the most skillful man: I believe in language, which is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
