Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better… — David Crow Copy Share Image
“... it's all words and only words, and beyond the words there's nothing... a word, which, like all the others, can only… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call… — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy.… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
“The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that requires more precision, and purity of expression, than to write in a familiar style,' as the great English… — Matt Weiland Copy Share Image
I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“It’s my earliest memory: arranging my brother’s marbles into words. It is summer, and I am beneath the oak that stands in… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able… — Aacharya Mahapragya Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak. Her heart racing, at times entirely lost for words, ground and… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“This isn’t just your mind paying more attention—suddenly your entire body is paying attention. When this happens, it’s outside our conscious capabilities.… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
