The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, I feel that man invented language solely to satisfy his deep need to complain.” — Dale E. Basye Copy Share Image
“Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E L James Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?” — Lenore Look Copy Share Image
“It is possible to communicate beautifully or boringly, in every language on Earth. But people don't like to believe this. They make… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
I want to make movies - and I want to portray characters - that make people think. I want to make movies… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenly the moon appeared from behind… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
