“A language has genius. Some works translate well, others are untranslatable. Molière is effective only in French. Without knowing Arabic nobody has… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave… — Cheryl Matthynssens Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us.… — Jacques Rogge Copy Share Image
“Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
If anything, I'm overacting in the ring because of the facials and the body language. I want the guy in the cheap… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment: he can speak… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Words are so very powerful, and we never know what state of mind someone is in at any time. You choose your… — Doe Zantamata Copy Share Image
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.' 'It… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Ars Poetica I taught my words to love, I showed them my heart and would not give up until their syllables did… — Nichita Stănescu Copy Share Image
“Lacking a verb, a nominal sentence has no built-in reference to the speaker or the occasion of speaking. Accordingly, nominal sentences are… — Alfred Mollin and Robert Williamson Copy Share Image
Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The experimental film scene was very much misogynistic as well. I don't know if you have read what little attention was given… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such… — African Spir Copy Share Image
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
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