When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.” — Sydney Jane Baily Copy Share Image
Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm.… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules,… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Never use a big word no one understands; When a short filthy one is good enough — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but its when you put it down and live your life… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another voice. — TS Eliot Copy Share Image
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal. — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The word LIE is in the word BELIEVE so be careful what you believe because it just might be a lie. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
