In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“Fuck', I think. What a beautiful word. If I could say only one thing for the rest of my life, that would… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word:… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The bricoleur , says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language...… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Football is being used as a language in that project...The vital message being communicated to the boys and young men is about… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
“But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my… — Ali Harris Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they… — Bronson Pinchot Copy Share Image
“The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street… — Denis Lavant Copy Share Image
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message. — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
