The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
“When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
“That all may be one." We were born for these words, for unity, to contribute toward its fulfillment in the world.” — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our… — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its… — John A. Hiigli Copy Share Image
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
