The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It was Mary who first adored the Incarnate Word. He was in her womb, and no one on earth knew of it.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
Today, there are over 7,000 languages spoken throughout the world. They may sound different, but in every case, they're drawing on the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome… — E.D. Baker Copy Share Image
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't… — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview,… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“{ Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } On… — Owen Miller Copy Share Image
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight.… — George Armitage Miller Copy Share Image
The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams.… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle Copy Share Image
By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
“Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow.… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, 'I know the word,'… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm.… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image