Just what is meant by 'your word?' It means your conscious intention, your conscious direction, your conscious faith and acceptance that, because… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“The Word is a symbol and a delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
"In the beginning was the word" and that's the thing about Krishna, saying Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, so it's not the word… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
“Nouns can act like adjectives (“chocolate cake”); adjectives can act like nouns (“grammarians are the damned”); verbs can look like verbs (“she’s… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“Avoid fancy words…If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from… — John Simon Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Good, good, now say cheese, say cheese, cheese, cheeeeeeese - the woman enthuses, and everyone says cheese. Myself, I don't really say,… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the art world hate to use the word "Photoshop", like it's cheating or easy or something. I… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The robot could no longer lift his head, had not read the message. They lifted his head, but he complained that his… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
London is the most multicultural, mixed race place on Earth. And I love that. I grew up in a neighborhood in London… — JJ Feild Copy Share Image
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient,… — Ottmar Hitzfeld Copy Share Image
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like,… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“Mr. Taylor has this habit of emphasizing his point by using three adjectives or verbs in a row. 'Class, you must know,'… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
I speak three languages - English is my third language - so I take my time with lyrics. It's almost like having… — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been… — Jon Gnarr Copy Share Image
Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The poet Li Qing-jao knew the pain of regretting words that have already fallen from our lips and can never be called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
![“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb1/anonymous-1_children_when-you-wish-to-instruct-be-brief-that_1032053.jpg)
![“Mr. Taylor has this habit of emphasizing his point by using three adjectives or verbs in a row. 'Class, you must know,' Simon begins [imitating] in a droning voice, flinging her arms around at every syllable, 'that should you fail to understand, to comprehend, to FEEL the power of the…” quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/66c/randa-abdel-fattah-12772_funny_mr-taylor-has-this-habit-of-emphasizing_373017.jpg)
![“Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.” quote by Jon Gnarr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/533/j-n-gnarr-41614_ability_many-autistic-people-have-this-ability-t_1127253.jpg)
