“The words he had written wiggled off the page and escaped from the drawer. The letters stacked themselves, one on top of… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word... Where is the Life we have lost… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“A good writer is likely to know and use, or find out and use, the words for common architectural features, like "lintel,"… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The locust has no king Just noise and hard language They talk me over” — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I would not want to be in the same movement with an anarcho-syndicalist, however much I may respect and like that person.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you… — Elizabeth Adeniyi Copy Share Image
Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves. — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Language is an exploratory tool. Linking observations and thoughts in an orderly fashion is the business of a philosopher. A writer is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I wondered how it was possible I had found words out there in the world but could lose them in the house… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
Silence is gold because the words are at the origin of many misfortunes but speech is silver to calm certain pains — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the word turns into a body And the body opens its mouth And speaks the word from which It was created—… — Chezi Laskly Copy Share Image
I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words,… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
