Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One thing I really like about philosophy is that it's possible actually to do work in a wide range of different areas.… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW.… — Kathryn Erskine Copy Share Image
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
“We may never know when the right word will transform a person's life.” — Philip White Copy Share Image
