Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Words can make you sick. Or healed. - Words create worlds because the universe is always listening... and so are your cells,… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
Language is clumsy, understanding is subjective, religion is obstructive. We must rise above these obstacles to achieve complete being. — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
Knowing how to speak to people with the right words at the right time, that's immensely powerful. — Angelos Postecoglou Copy Share Image
My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages! — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever your eyes see so do your mind think it into a word that will get your ass whoop! — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
