The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
“Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I do not communicate by words alone. In fact, rarely do I do so. My most common form of communication is through… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk… — Semanticist Wendell Johnson Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Perhaps better with… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It’s the Poverty. I lack imagination you say No. I lack language. The language to clarify my resistance to the literate. Words… — Cherríe L. Moraga Copy Share Image
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
“:Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never… — Paul S. Atkins Copy Share Image
“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state… — Crowder Copy Share Image
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker,… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Our lifestyle, language, attitudes, and manner of dress reflect on His name. He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's… — Curtis Hutson Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
“Comfort with an art form that uses language comes because we all own it, to one degree or another. Words come from… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I started playing cricket, I knew that my physique is not at all like a typical fast bowler. My body language… — Bhuvneshwar Kumar Copy Share Image
Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things -… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T.… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths,… — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know… — Wally Byam Copy Share Image
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We… — P. D. James Copy Share Image