“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that… — Ernest Hogan Copy Share Image
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One thing I really like about philosophy is that it's possible actually to do work in a wide range of different areas.… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW.… — Kathryn Erskine Copy Share Image
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
“We may never know when the right word will transform a person's life.” — Philip White Copy Share Image
“These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Not only does language reflect a person’s thinking, but it also reinforces a person’s thinking.” — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
