Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language,… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
May be you can never understand the languages of different people, but you can always understand them with their behaviour... — Rohit Padhra Copy Share Image
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“O, gentle Bard, if thou couldst but glimpse our digital age! We set words in light called ‘blogs,’ Which are, alas, neither… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“To be taught to write or to speak — but what is the use of speaking if you have nothing to say?… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“There were no words, no capacity to form them, but there were thoughts swelling huge in her head and he was in… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Regret is one the scariest words in any language and success is one of the most beautiful ones. What are you waiting… — Farshad Asl Copy Share Image
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Women lost for words, guess they dont know English. No matter what language they speak, they all know dinglish. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“The word ‘God’ is a part of language and its grammar. Even if the whole world turns atheist tomorrow, the incredible arrangement… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
