When people say stuff to us casually in reviews, if they write about it in a condescending way with really gendered language,… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“We consider speech to be the result of thought (we have a thought, then select a sentence with which to express it),… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.” — Ken Bugul Copy Share Image
It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you… — Anthony Heald Copy Share Image
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“For Carrie, words were volatile, intentional, Molotov cocktails of meaning.” — Maria Padian Copy Share Image
“the debasement of thought cannot be separated from the debasement of language.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
“Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons anti-immigration state laws start to happen is they happen in states where there is an enormous… — Rilla Askew Copy Share Image