Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities.… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely,… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I need to get into details, I like French. But when I want to do something stronger, English is better. The… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I have this thing built into my contract that the club has to put up a sign that says my act "contains… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I think we don't need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don't speak the… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
“every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I love the English language, but I'm crap at it, so I might as well do what I'm good at. The same… — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
You [young people] all are just much more internationally-minded and traveled and knowledgeable in languages than any other previous generation. So many… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“Around this time, Pelletier and Espinoza, worried about the current state of their mutual lover, had two long conversations on the phone.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Yes, writing words, words, words. Well you’ve made a rope of words and strangled this business. Hah! But there’s a microphone right… — Norma Desmond Copy Share Image
The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over."… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made… — Petula Clark Copy Share Image
Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“There is power in words. There are words that bid us laugh and make us weep. Words to begin with and words… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
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