If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many… — Henri Bourassa Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting. — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
Words can be very powerful. Why not use them to lift someone up today rather than knock them down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me,… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I think I'm too indoctrinated. I'm going to use everything I can, and I think if I used an advertisement in that… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I didn't quite realise until we started to put together our first cut of 'Wonderstruck' how much time is spent with no… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
