“Words are our raw materials, how we string them them together our art.” — Michael W. Smart Copy Share Image
Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience. — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Fate is what it was. Yes, fate that the book I had with me was a novel written by my great-grandfather, a… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
