Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect,… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A whirlwind tour, I think, with each day starting in a different city, you wearing a different silk dress, tasting food the… — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
“He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“[English] fails me utterly when I attempt to describe what I love about Greek, that language innocent of all quirks and cranks;… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Words can save someone’s life if they were put together with love and care.” — Isaac Nash Copy Share Image
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What would I do now, at age 48, if I were deported to a country that I have not seen in more… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
