I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language… — Pedro Passos Coelho Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who writes out words. All of my text messages? You can read them. Everyone would know what… — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous.… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
They say 'A Picture' Is Worth A Thousand Words. But I think they're wrong. When I looked at yours, I was speechless... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I think that if we can find the words, and if we can find someone to tell them to, then perhaps we… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. The words you use and think of, may have impact on your life. May you enrich your life with… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Immigrants not only contribute to Houston's sociocultural fabric, including through their language, cuisine, faith, and customs, but are also an exceedingly important… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
“Kissed. Cath loved that word. She used it sparingly in her fic, just because it felt so powerful. It felt like kissing… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Weber sandstone a billion years old. This rock was Precambrian, I read, a term like postmodern, suggesting that what it names is… — Jim Paul Copy Share Image
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell… — Prabhu Deva Copy Share Image
“If you don't speak the language of love, you hear the world less and yourself more. And in your stubbornness, you fail… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
