My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't. — Andrew Lakey Copy Share Image
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish. — B. C. Forbes 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
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
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
“If an assemblage of words you’re using is creating states that disempower you, get rid of those words and replace them with… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
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
Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“One senses that Hegel was possible only in German, and finds it natural that Locke in a language where large and red… — Hugh Kenner Copy Share Image
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
