Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs. — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
“Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!” — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We… — James D. Nicoll Copy Share Image
A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do. — John Reyes Copy Share Image
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask anything—I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke the smallest one—the one I should have used more in my short… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“We always think of language as an immovable object, as this set of codified and unbreakable rules. But when you consider that… — John Green Copy Share Image
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Your grasp of the language is startling,” Wax said, “considering how you so frequently brutalize it.” “Ain’t nobody what knows the cow… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing… — Michael Rennie Copy Share Image
For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.” — James Tate Copy Share Image
