If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
Film is a pretty poor medium to deliver a message. I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to ask a… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“We are not speaking gibberish. We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great Calipha and Saladin, the most… — John Green Copy Share Image
The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
“Think about the impromptu speech as a game. Your attitude will change your frame of mind and instead of concentrating on the… — Andrii Sedniev Copy Share Image
In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“What we need, of course, is a language which will allow us to distinguish the normal or routine fuck from the glorious,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
“It has been brought to my attention that I may be a verbivore. I consumptor of words, that I subsequently spew forth… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are those in the industry who don't give romance novels the level of respect the sales would warrant. They'll talk… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know,… — Yuna Copy Share Image
Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing… — Michael Rennie Copy Share Image
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
