We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know he didnt… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language? — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think that politics in most people's lives expresses itself like that: indirectly, in half thought-out opinions and feelings. And sometimes through… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“And I did not speak German well; I found the language harsh and guttural, my ear simply couldn’t find it pleasing, and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking… — Sebastian Arcelus Copy Share Image
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“She copies vocabulary words down in a notebook because she likes the way they sound: Harridan. Pusillanimous. Talisman. Dowager. Enervating. Sycophantic . . .” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Of all the languages of the earth in which the human kind confer; The Master Speaker is the Tear: its the Great… — Ridgely Torrence Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate… — Doug Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Having more than one mother language may be a problem sometimes, mainly if they tend to be in conflict with each other. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go… — Taeyang Copy Share Image
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. — George Will Copy Share Image
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
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