“There it was again, another strange usage. 'We had words.' Everyone has words...What a useless euphemism. The phrases that people used to… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
It is what it is and it's not what it's not the way peoples words affect you is how you take what… — Irene DeLeon Alvarez Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“93/7 Rule: 93% of communication occurs through nonverbal behavior & tone; only 7% of communication takes place through the use of words.” — John Stoker Copy Share Image
Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice. — James Merrill Copy Share Image
“Speak you too, speak as the last, say out your say. Speak- But don’t split off No from Yes. Give your say… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“I know it's too early for the L-word, and yet it's there, bursting from the seams, begging to be spoken. And as… — Misty Wilson Copy Share Image
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“The only private language I know is self-exaggeration. I think I've grown a second self in this room. It's the self-important fool… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
I don't think as a society, as a nation we would ever wear swastikas openly again, but aligning ourselves with the kind… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the… — Scott Fahlman Copy Share Image
Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn… — Indira Varma Copy Share Image
“No one can teach anyone to be a great anything. If your blood is on fire with the love of language and… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
In Europe, even more so than in national politics, we have to follow the principle laid down by Martin Luther: Use language… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Not only can rearranging our sentences to avoid ending them in prepositions sound pretentious, it’s also unnecessary. Grammar experts agree that it’s… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for. — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
