You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go." — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“They can be like the sun, words. They can do for the heart what light can for a field.” — St. John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing? — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“As food is to the body, so is The Word to the Spirit of a disciple” — Christian Michael Copy Share Image
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.” — LaMar Boschman Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It is indeed true that when the Word becomes flesh in the here and now it changes us.” — Jenni Jessen Copy Share Image
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened,… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Heavy as such things are After the wordslide, the writing begins." From "Word Quake” — Eileen Granfors Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what… — Dawud Wharnsby Ali Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns… — Marshall Ramsay Copy Share Image
Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever,… — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
I was only 19 when I came to Hoffenheim. Everything was new to me - a strange country, a foreign language. That… — Roberto Firmino Copy Share Image
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
