All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the… — Mary-Lou Weisman Copy Share Image
The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
“Negative words have a way of permeating our system and making themselves comfortable in our sub-conscious. Once they find a place in… — D.S. Mashego Copy Share Image
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed,… — Chuck Palanhiuk Copy Share Image
If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun… — Harry Hopkins Copy Share Image
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language,… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
“Those words tasted bitter. But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. He who… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
In the dictionary of successful persons, practice is the only word which does not allow in itthe entry of words like impossible. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, a single word, “understanding,” is the beacon light of our studies —MARC BLOCH” — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Varro to Brian: "You always think there has to be some grand gesture, but really, there doesn’t even have to be words.… — Mary Calmes Copy Share Image
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new… — Jack Kroll Copy Share Image
The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.] — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise, — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
“I have seen words fly out at the end of thoughts and not return. I have seen things at the end of… — Ricardo M. de Ungria Copy Share Image
Moving to England, again it's a new language to learn, and I've got to get use to the mentality, the culture, but… — Granit Xhaka Copy Share Image
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin;… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It doesnt matter if youre black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image