“In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.” — William Carlos; Edith Heal Williams Copy Share Image
Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like,… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred.… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I'm not just interested in the thoughts I have, but also in others' thoughts, and why not carry those forward? That's why… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I love the juxtaposition of these words. I love the incongruity, the oddity, the very strangeness of their nearness. Dizzy Gillespie. Pakistan.… — Maliha Masood Copy Share Image
The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one… — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
“Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama.… — John Milius Copy Share Image
Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with… — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
