This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Hey dawg, wassup?" he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Words do exist to soothe the savage beast. One just needs to find the right words.” — KC Riley-Gyer Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.” — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of… — Adam Brown Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump's language and the way that he presents things oftentimes is not good. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
“Sometimes just being able to write only a few hundred words as opposed to a few thousand is just fine. As long… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“don’t know about you, but my English isn’t perfect. I hesitate when I’m nervous, I forget precisely the right word every now… — Benny Lewis Copy Share Image
When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from… — Jaap Stam Copy Share Image
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
My most successful song was 'Language' and I think partly because it's a nice, dancey record, but I'll see people cry in… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The Internet gave me the sense that there were words to describe my feelings and medical terms. — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German. — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for... getting attention is… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I think deep down, we always knew that words are magic and some words have more power than others. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being."… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“There's an exercise I'll do sometimes with a class in which we'll start with a word; I'll give everyone a word, and… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
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