Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that the metaphor “is the fertile soil from which all language is born, and literal language is the… — David Kord Murray Copy Share Image
I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“...how in the end it's impossible to understand the finality of certain things, certain words, certain moments.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers,… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In… — Carolyn Jones Copy Share Image
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum… — Lamar Boschman Copy Share Image
I came to the country [U.S] without speaking a word of English, without a penny, worked full time, 40 hours a week,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart?” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how… — Neville Brody Copy Share Image
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Resurrection... ah, there's a word (that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me unless they are written on sticks and stones.” — Nitya Prakash Copy Share Image
Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language. — Adam Clymer Copy Share Image
“We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't really control the language around you. All you can do is follow your voice and your path - dedicate… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When will people know that saying,''Stop doing this,Stop doing that, Don't do it, Stay strong'' doesn't help. Words mean nothing. Action means… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
People who have made their name in this film industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the… — Jaya Bachchan Copy Share Image
Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
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