The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present… — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Copy Share Image
I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?'… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Words are like shards of glass. By themselves they're worthless; however, when placed together in just the right way, they can become… — Leigh M. Lane Copy Share Image
“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come… — Najibullah Quraishi Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what words to use until my hand wrote them, though as I wrote, I saw every color, heard the… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man. — E. W. Kenyon Copy Share Image
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image