There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Words for everyday showers of prettiness, and the kind of misty loveliness that disappears whenever you try to grasp it. Beauty that’s… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity,… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes. — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words]. — Keli Goff Copy Share Image
“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.” — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts. — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. — Lesley Howarth Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
