“Some words are invisible—namely spoken words—but that only means I read them with my ears. But people are rude, and they often… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths,… — L.P. Jacks Copy Share Image
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart” — Nikita Tak Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words. — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
“ 'Hubba-Hubba' never slips out," Zeke said. "You selected those words with deliberate intent, and I question your commitment to the respectable… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words,… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking,… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious. — Keith Senior Copy Share Image
“Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied… — Laura Kalpakian Copy Share Image
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“I could use language in a way that would get me into trouble and out of trouble.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
