Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
“The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine. They may unfold long after your death.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes… — Gwenno Copy Share Image
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a… — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local… — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
I have never been someone who chooses a film according to the language. Since I am comfortable with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam,… — Meghana Raj Copy Share Image
Words spoken with kindness has the power to heal to mend a broken heart. Words spoken with hatred and venom, nothing good… — Julandie Scholtz Copy Share Image
We had our moment [with Marc Anthony] in the third or fourth year that we were married, when we did everything together:… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
[The Women's Room] was the first thing I read that explained a lot of the feelings I was having and a lot… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very,… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency.… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people don't realize that sign language is not universal. Each country has their own form of sign… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“The word sorry doesn't mean the guilt is there and saying I forgive you doesn't mean the hurt has gone away.” — Unknown Author 47 Copy Share Image
My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language. — Mantak Chia Copy Share Image
“Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at… — Charles A. Didier Copy Share Image
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Before 'The Last Samurai,' I couldn't believe I could do that. I didn't think I would be able to explain myself and… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne'er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come,… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
5 greatest words : I dun wanna lose U. 4 pleasant words : I care for U. 3 sweet words : I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everywhere I have gone in the world, even though we don't speak the same language, food is the same language. — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image