Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“My epiphany: Printed words were the shadows of referents. Things: rock, sand, onion. Ideas: carpool, justice, maximization, irrevocability. Paragraphs were composite shadows… — Tim Horvath Copy Share Image
I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Feelings Were Much More Important Than Words.. But, Now A Days Words Have Great Importance.. Since People Dont Understand Feelings..! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can… — Bono Copy Share Image
When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be remember.Because all… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Actually, that's one of the things I like most about my job: There isn't much of a day-to-day. For example, last week,… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship. — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
“Words often bring with them the illusion of transparency, as though they allowed us to understand everything, control everything, put everything in… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language.… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful.… — Emily Murdoch Copy Share Image
After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone” — Kenneth White Copy Share Image
“Before you speak, ask yourself this question: will your words improve the silence?” — Andrew B. Newberg Copy Share Image
I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Thousand of language are spoken in our world but the most important language is LOVE, indeed LOVE has no language — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
