Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human lanuage, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter… — rachel hawkins Copy Share Image
“Words can't fix my life. Words can't give me a family. Words can't do jack. You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone,… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!' — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
“First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
“What is it about words? The addictive nature of them? And when we lose them from one cherished source, we frantically search… — J.S. Holm Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
