To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works. — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it. — Gwenno Copy Share Image
“While English is an international language, the Art language is the universal one.” — Sabina Hassan Copy Share Image
One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?' — Sam Horn Copy Share Image
There's a building kit for simple games. But more advanced users can program complex things with our script capabilities, which is built… — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
“Words aren’t just words, rather an emotion expressed through the vines of mental awakening. Blind is he who cannot feel this emotion… — Tasneem Rawat Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Your words are your own creation and every time you open your mouth, you show the world a glimpse of into who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that requires more precision, and purity of expression, than to write in a familiar style,' as the great English… — Matt Weiland Copy Share Image
The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy.… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
