Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each… — Jef I Richards Copy Share Image
For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to… — Ingrid Bengis 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
“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“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! 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the… — Darryl Marks Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for… — Camilo Jose Cela Copy Share Image
“When a child says, “Mr. Roberson, how do you spell this word? What does that word mean?” I’ll look tortured. “Oh,” I’ll… — Doug Robertson Copy Share Image
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken,… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
![“Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish. However, you didn't have to be a Jew to be moved by 'My Yiddish Momme.' 'Mother' in any language…” quote by Sophie Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/978/sophie-tucker-30883_careful_even-though-i-loved-the-song-my-yiddish_1564901.jpg)
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