The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Over done forgotten gone. The most powerful words in the universe! — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Two words I believe in is 1.Be 2.Yourself no matter what anyone says. — Jonathan Tali Copy Share Image
“❝One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.❞” — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.” — Sierra DeMulder Copy Share Image
People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me. — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
“Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "You (censored)—(deleted)—(omitted)—(unprintability)", he roared.” — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
“I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“the goal of a contract is to describe with precision the substance of the meeting of two minds, in language that will… — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
“Grammar and spelling are a part of thought process. If one knows the meaning of words, one may be able to better… — Sienna McQuillen Copy Share Image
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Each life lived eventually became a book. How a single letter becomes a word, becomes a sentence, becomes a paragraph, before finally… — Betta Ferrendelli Copy Share Image
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting.… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
