“It is best, in fact, to assume that every verbal illustration you write will offend someone, somewhere, at some point.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
“All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn’t understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire. — Hafez Copy Share Image
What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning. — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
When she say the word ''I Love You'' was it meant for ''You'' or someone beside ''You''??? — Fyco Copy Share Image
People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Words don't have power to hurt you unless they are said by the person,behind or infront of you,who means alot to you..!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image