“Here are several strategies for enhancing communication when addressing an audience of second-language English speakers: Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Use… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Many accents and languages is part of myself has definitely played an important role in who I am today as an actor.… — Massimo Dobrovic Copy Share Image
“No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“After years of not speaking, I understood the importance of words. How they had the power to hurt individuals, yet they also… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times when people hear the word dance, they think 'oh, that's something that I can't do.' But… — Camille A. Brown Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and… — Keith Sonnier Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
We spent all day together [with Phil Wood] at that one particular lesson, which was maybe the third or fourth lesson, in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“For example, only some members of a hunting society have the experience of losing their weapons and being forced to fight a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
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