Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes.… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of… — Linda Nagata Copy Share Image
“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“The night, the lips lost all words, The moon said it all, The sweet secrets of midnight moments, Why darkness bursts with… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
“It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“does our relational language, already imbued with oppressive cultural meaning-making, necessarily preclude the possibility of speaking about freedom? How can you speak… — Anais Duplan Copy Share Image
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
Words won't always work. So always express your feelings more in action than Words. Words fade. Memories linger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot… — Confucius Copy Share Image
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on? — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“There was a whole vocabulary of suffering, eloquent in its wordlessness, which gave voice to all the things she couldn't do or… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, Latin America's economy is almost as big as the economy of China. We're all focused on China.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Hinting is the language of the coward who can't face others with their emotions fearing their reactions. But brave who faces anyone… — Gigi Copy Share Image
There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image