You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty… — Jude Nutter Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
“I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.” — Lisa Glatt Copy Share Image
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. — Danilo Dolci Copy Share Image
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible. — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions. — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
“And who would have ever thought we'd see a time when the period – the building block of our very language, punctuation-wise… — Emmy Favilla Copy Share Image
Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear -… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for… — Daniel T. Willingham Copy Share Image
My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand. I waited. But Grace, the only person in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
“I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until… — Ibn Al-Nadim Copy Share Image
Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
