I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?' — Carmen Kass Copy Share Image
“Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call… — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
“Fate... What a bleak and meaningless word to express something no one can explain.” — Y. Correa Copy Share Image
“She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.” — John Green Copy Share Image
We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“If I opened my mouth to say a single word, all of the other expired words would have followed and spilled to… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t good, but it was something. Cath could always change it later. That was the beauty in stacking up words—they got… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[Everybody Loves Somebody] one really loves both cultures, represents them in a very accurate, genuine, authentic, fun, fresh way, and it includes… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will” — Belcampo Copy Share Image
“The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image