For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost…

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

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

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

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

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

— TimBur

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 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

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

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

— Raghib Clitso

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Shelly Crane

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

Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence.

— Anonymous

“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”

— Horace

For comedy action, I must know the language.

— Sammo Hung