Language is that first cry after birth, growing up to learn the correct way to write all the way up to landing… — Justin Bates Copy Share Image
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
“These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Sorry but I’m revising for my spelling test tomorrow . . . . . . I know it’s only a 10 word… — James Warwood Copy Share Image
“I'd been treating love like a thing, an achievement, a trophy to be and hung around my neck. People talk about it… — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I snorted. ‘For a great sultan who is lord and ruler of all that he surveys, his English is lamentably poor. He… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself…We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions:… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and… — Marc-Andre Grondin Copy Share Image
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average -… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“I discovered that the predisposition for languages is as mysterious as the inclination of certain people for mathematics or music and has… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
“I am thinking of a summer on the Baltic when I was a child: how talkative I was to sea and forest;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Language is powerful. What we say can shape how we think—and it certainly shapes how others think about us. In this regard,… — Richard Hunter Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact,… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
“You will feel more responsible for your own words when you notice how your words can affect lives of other people. You… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Words are power. And a few have the ability to end lives. They say the pen is mightier than the sword. This… — Ron Ripley Copy Share Image
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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