The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
My words mean nothing to me only if it was a plea I know I ain't no fool I know what I… — Alva Cloud Eagle Copy Share Image
Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This, however, only shows that there is an ambiguity in the word is; a word which not only performs the function of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color… — Carl De Keyzer Copy Share Image
Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved… — Eliot Paulina Sumner Copy Share Image
Once you identify and learn to speak your spouse’s primary love language, I believe that you will have discovered the key to… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
What people say often precedes what they think. Some people sometimes say, "I have to hear myself talk before I know what… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
“I want to write a universal truism that won’t be blurred by body language, cultural confusion, or translation mishaps, so I want… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Today, there are more non-native users of English than the native ones. This has resulted in the use of two varieties of… — Manish A Vyas Copy Share Image
I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Language is the rich fabric that enshrouds all experience that is truly human. Those who are hyperpolyglots therefore adorn multiple layers of… — Usman W. Chohan Copy Share Image
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“This is my story. Death tried to kill it; Grief tried to drown it; Pride tried to erase it; Pain tried to… — Sandi Morgan Denkers Copy Share Image
“Whatever belonging to the region of thought and feeling is uttered in words, is of necessity uttered imperfectly. For thought and feeling… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane… — Richard C. Wydick Copy Share Image
I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan,… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in… — DeLillo Don Copy Share Image
