“Was it possible to live outside language? Naturally this question did not address itself to her in words, or as a single… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and there, you are saying… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I step around in a field of words, just trying to find the right ones to pick for you. ” — Larissa Ellis Copy Share Image
“You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it We’re destroying words—scores of… — Orwell, George Copy Share Image
He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121) — Edward Conze Copy Share Image
Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“were quite different from ours of today. English is used to represent the languages. But two points may be noted. (1)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
A picture can tell a thousand words, Pbut a few words can change its story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We name us and then we are lost, tamed I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness” — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own. — Ibrahim Farah Copy Share Image
