Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
“Language is not unlike art in that words contain values of lights and darks, hues and tonalities, texture and sensuality. Words can… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
You have to speak in a language everyone can understand and see themselves in, and you also have to speak to the… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Due allowance being made for the sounds of the language, writing aloud is not phonological but phonetic; its aim is not the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
For last years words belong to last years language. And next years words await another voice. And to make an end is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.” — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I think of time as I think of desire and language and our bodies; the distance between things and then things themselves,… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
I think when you play with the same defence, you sort of understand each other's body language, and you read off each… — Wojciech Szczesny Copy Share Image
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of… — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
“Where is my language? You're a kind soul and deserve everything of the best for all of your future tomorrows.” — Abigail George Copy Share Image
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
