“The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.” — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
You do a movie if it's good and if you want to do it. It doesn't matter if it's small or big… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I eat language, it's like pumpkin soup for me. Even my tongue concludes I'm obsessed. Words are sex to me, I get… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics. — Henry F. Ashurst Copy Share Image
I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which… — Ben Watt Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“Like many things that are claimed as Western inventions, grammar was first practiced in the East. According to scholars, there is a… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various… — Hans H Wellisch Copy Share Image
“I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like… — Constance Dejong Copy Share Image
“This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image