It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more… — Thalia Copy Share Image
“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…” — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Words have power, for better or worse. Like the smell of fresh rain on cut grass, Or the stench of a decaying… — David Estes Copy Share Image
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“We understand the forked tongue that our grandfathers talked about. [...] We know all the tricks of the wasicu world. Our young… — Nick Estes Copy Share Image
Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
