The language of politics is spoken in the first-person plural, and for Conservatives, the duty of the politician is to maintain that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions.… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
The secret to freestyling is working on the creation of thought and it being expressed from your cerebral cortex, to the air… — Myka 9 Copy Share Image
So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“burnt by the sun of your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Old Language really was beautiful, Blay thought. Staring at the symbols, for one brief, ridiculous moment he imagined his own name… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“One adopted their language, that of the teachers and the schools, one had none of one's own. At first it was like… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“And then, this she offered to me, my one truth: "Our language," she said, "is not spoken, but sung.... Not simply words...… — M. T. Anderson Copy Share Image
You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage,… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
“My auntie Chava used to tell me to chew my words before letting them out. "Seven times, Majan," she would say. "Chew… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image