Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.” — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much? — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.” — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.” — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“...words possess power, whether they are names given to children, curses spoken to enemies, blessings offered to our loved ones, or even… — Chris Seay Copy Share Image
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your grasp of the language is startling,” Wax said, “considering how you so frequently brutalize it.” “Ain’t nobody what knows the cow… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Words ruin one's thoughts, paper makes them ridiculous, and even while one is still glad to get something ruined and something ridiculous… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
You mark my words: Whenever a cult attacks Christianity, the first place they're going to go is they're going to attack the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“All the misunderstandings that tie the world up and keep people apart were quivering before me at once, waiting for me to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
