i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal…

“That odd alchemy of married love - passion, betrayal, fury, kindness, and companionship - lay there exposed between them.”

— N.M. Kelby

“We often hear it said that it is the task of art to express the inexpressible: it is contrary which must be said (with…

— Roland Barthes

“Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.”

— Charlotte Brontë

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.”

— Shelly Crane

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

— Paulo Coelho

You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words.

— Raghib Clitso

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into…

— Anton Webern

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

— Samuel Barnett

“I only have two words to say More or Less”

— TimBur

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez