Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
“Just sing me your song. Teach me the words. Tell me what you know.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I realized that I was a bad listener: I paid too much attention to the words.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Sixteen is the first compound number that splits the Spanish tongue; a linguistic flaw that had its economical cost.” — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I've travelled to some of the places where Russian language and Russian culture were made part of the fabric of life long… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out;… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder.… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
