the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into…

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

— William Shakespeare

Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old…

— Janet Fitch

Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by…

— Albert Pike

These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.

— William Shakespeare

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

— Megan Whalen Turner

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