My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
“No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“d] One speaks in a language one doesn't understand, uses money whose worth one does not know, and wanders down streets for… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. — John Erskine Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine. — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word of the moment isclassless, whether applied toCockney Society photographers or sprigs of the aristocracy running little bistros round the corner.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could give you example after example, of where the language of the far Right, driven by Islamophobia, has now become institutionalised… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world.… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
