“I was stringing beads of different sizes in symmetrical groups—two large beads, three small ones, and so on. I had made many… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“...what is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness. — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Interplanetary dust,” I repeated, liking the feel of the words on my tongue.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Of the six million species on the planet, only man makes language. Words. What's more--in evidence of the Divine--we string those symbols… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
“After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or… — Ethem Alpaydin Copy Share Image
“All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
