Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Love a word that fills the stomch with butterflys when said. A word more missed used then truly what it was ment… — Marcus White Copy Share Image
“To most people, if you’re muttering, you might as well be speaking a foreign language. I should know, because in college I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think… — Jack Jason Copy Share Image
Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which… — Helen Barrett Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I mean every word of my vows. Everything I've been, I am, or will ever be, I surrender it all to you.” — Georgia Cates Copy Share Image
“You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you… — David Liss Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered… — Cole Swensen Copy Share Image
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Identity for Jews like us was shaped by cultural practices and family traditions rather than allegiances of place or language or class,… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences.… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. — Allen Sapp Copy Share Image
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well. — Fabinho Copy Share Image