People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In time, most children stop being puzzled in this way. They settle in. The world around them, as it becomes familiar and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should… — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking… — Rude Jude Copy Share Image
“Who, for example, would have ever predicted that the high school student who uses too many verbs in her college admissions essay… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There's a rich history at Westboro of parodying pop culture. The thing about pop culture is that it gives us a shared… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies.… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The second effort was spreading the word among the people, first, in a bid to raise their morale, and second to instil… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“How can you gain a full understanding of a subject when you don't understand the words used to explain it? Well, that's… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I think that ultimately, when you create music that is proper music, then it becomes fundamental and anyone can relate to it… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?" "With the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Language and poetry are endlessly fascinating. The most brilliant work can be so sparse yet so full of meaning. That's what I'm… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Words are nothing more than the sky, crying, thunderous crystalline bolts of pure esoteric passion from the deepest crevices that hide beneath… — Susan Marie Copy Share Image
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“What makes music beautiful is the distance between one note and another. What makes speech eloquent is the appropriate pause between words.… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
