I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human. — ZZ Packer Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism… — Will Leitch Copy Share Image
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Their conversation is like a gently wicked dance: sound meets sound, curtsies, shimmies, and retires. Another sound enters but is upstaged by… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Let me make something clear: I can't do anything in particular to make others laugh. I do what is necessary for a… — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I'm not even sure I have a signature style,… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
“His words are the air I breathe. The fluid that hydrates me. The food that nourishes me. They're everything giving me everything… — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
Comedy is more an art of body language and gestures - it is more a performance of an artist than the lines… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
