I did not experience language deprivation. I did have access to language and communication, ever since I was a little kid. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My word is noting if the circumstance change after I made my decision. Because I am no fool to keep my word,… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.” — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I always surprise myself on my ability to turn a phrase. Words are, in my not so humble opinion, the most inexhaustible… — JK Rowling Copy Share Image
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen Copy Share Image
“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I had no words, and I always had words. No man in the history of my cunt had ever rendered me speechless.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar… — Charlie Byrd Copy Share Image
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
