The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“Storms. How did you describe taste? "It's like color.. you see with your mouth." [Shallan] grimaced.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. — Grey Livingston Copy Share Image
Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years,… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
“All her life she'd listened to talk, life was full of talk. People said things, true and interesting things and ridiculous things.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts. — John Newlove Copy Share Image
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.” — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting… — Miguel Copy Share Image
In love... the heart got a language, the eyes got dreams and life got its meaning — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
