Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
I think when you play with the same defence, you sort of understand each other's body language, and you read off each… — Wojciech Szczesny Copy Share Image
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of… — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
“Where is my language? You're a kind soul and deserve everything of the best for all of your future tomorrows.” — Abigail George Copy Share Image
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses,… — John W. Dawson Copy Share Image
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a… — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.” — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Now the room has the contours and atmosphere of all rooms in which people stay awake talking. The fluorescent light is grainy,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
