Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to reclaim the word 'tranny.' I don't want anyone to refer to me as 'tranny.' — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
I learned Portuguese, English and Spanish. It was great for me. My family always forced me to speak in every language. — Vicente Luque Copy Share Image
“How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“He loved to read. He loved words, the way they string together into sentences and stories. He wanted to study them, to… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image