Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“for each person there is a sentence – a series of words – which has the power to destroy him.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
No matter which language you speak, everyone understands the true meaning of smile. It communicates everything that a heart wants to express… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.” — Sebastyne Young Copy Share Image
It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
“Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense… — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction.... Language is the vehicle through… — Diana Whitney Copy Share Image
Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
“If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
There are more and more adult subjects with explicit language or explicit scenes... Yes, I feel there should be a category for… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When your thoughts are too crowded and you can't form the words, remember, tears are a language God truly understands. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form,… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“Words could be empty. It was the return of a gesture that held meaning. And” — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.” — Tom Kane Copy Share Image
Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image