“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at… — Michael Krauss Copy Share Image
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Finally, the Pirahã language is notoriously difficult because it lacks things that many other languages have, especially in the way that it… — Daniel L. Everett Copy Share Image
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Whenever I sing in a different language, I make sure I have a language expert sitting there with me to correct my… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself… — Ari Marmell Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. “Life and death is in the power of the… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes… — Beck Copy Share Image
“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through… — Lenora Champagne Copy Share Image
In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
