The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe...… — Ornella Muti Copy Share Image
Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs… — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words… — William Meredith Copy Share Image
Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority… — David Graddol Copy Share Image
Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I… — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as… — Daniel Wu Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say 'Pass the salt'. It could mean, you know, 'Can I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
“She isn't a storm or a leader or a king or a war or anyone whose life and death makes noise. The… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Oh my God..." Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Bickerton notes that if the grammar of a creole is largely the product of the minds of children, unadulterated by complex language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“There are those who eagerly learn another language to be one with another culture, then there are those morons who insist on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
I love the idea of a shield law; I don't know of any journalist who doesn't love the idea of a shield… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish,… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have really good ideas, but it is always Paul's language that makes them work. Without him I'd be more clinical,… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
“The Latin word for sausage was botulus, from which English gets two words. One of them is the lovely botuliform, which means… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“The intriguing thing about playing Scrabble is that as soon as the board is set up in front of me, I don't… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
“There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don't think people get the same feeling from… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts,… — Arne Tiselius Copy Share Image
