I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective. — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over."… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a smile, a giggle can say more than words do; words are not that articulate. And if you use words where… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions. — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
Telangana is not like Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh, nor even like Haryana. Apart from the language it shares with the rest of Andhra… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
“Tiff rolled her eyes like her brother before her. “Just because you can use big words doesn’t mean you’re smart okay”. “My… — Benedict Fetsch Copy Share Image
“When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Each of our actions, our words, our attitudes is cut off from the ‘world,’ from the people who have not directly perceived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
So the language of musical harmony is an absolutely extraordinary one. It's a way of navigating one's emotional frameworks, but without the… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Just come to Brussels after a Council meeting. Do you know what happens? Every head of government holds his or her own… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
