If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them… — Ato Boldon Copy Share Image
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Look at me. I'm an immigrant. When I came to the United States as a young girl, I didn't speak a word… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“You are the seer. Not quite human, strangely ethereal, ever cryptic, the voice soothed even as it unnerved me. The words were… — Anne K. Riley Copy Share Image
A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hand. — Sharon M Draper Copy Share Image
“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages! — Sergei Bubka Copy Share Image
Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power… — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can easily relate to the fighters almost as a sixth sense. I can pick up what they're thinking and read their… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The North and South were one people sharing one language and one culture for about 5,000 years. Ultimately, we should reunite. — Moon Jae-in Copy Share Image
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my… — Hazel Keech Copy Share Image
“Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“My definition of dictionary can’t be found in the dictionary. Dictionary—A linguistic prison, confining words to well-defined cells, with little chance of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save,… — H.D Copy Share Image
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you,… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
The biggest companies in the world and brands have come to me to help sell their product to the younger generation. And… — Logan Paul Copy Share Image
