I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“In this way, the labor of learning was very considerably lightened, and everyone came to know a few words of each language.… — Johann David Wyss Copy Share Image
Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome… — E.D. Baker Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond. — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Honestly, from a very young age, before I had the language, really - anywhere that I encountered binary, whether it was in… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
“I cursed. (S-word, f-word, s-word, d-word, s-word times three, f-word, and a z-word I made up on the spot.) I kicked a… — Jeff Strand Copy Share Image
