It's one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There was skill and fluency in the way he kissed her, for this was a language, too. Her body was learning it” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public. You never know which of them end… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their… — Charles Capps Copy Share Image
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Today, the official national language is Italian. This is based on the dialect of Florence, although people from each region have their… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to… — Josephus Copy Share Image
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
A word or words/sentance is spoken with/then a thought or thoughts (are) put behind it or them. or a word or words/sentance… — Dena Copy Share Image
My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our… — Vellupillai Pirapakaran Copy Share Image
“Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak… — Jennifer Varnadore Copy Share Image
Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal… — Alessandra Mastronardi Copy Share Image
I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I don't know if it becomes literature...I just know the two added words cause me to look at the ordinary sentences differently.… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“In this case, consulting the dictionary would simply mean discovering what one already knew, Dictionaries only provide information that is likely to… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
