I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
It depends on your style is to say, That Your words are stinging arrows as the heart of someone, or as the… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams.… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.” — Paige Skyler Copy Share Image
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. — Patricia K. Kuhl Copy Share Image
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I have always believed that cinema has no language and 'Dead End' has proved it so. — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“When words are too heavy for the mouth, the soul weeps in agony” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Three words you said to me in the night... I love you I need you I want you — Chelsea Harrington Copy Share Image
Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
“Language, then, not simply as a list of separate things to be added up and whose sum total is equal to the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a… — Lee Van Cleef Copy Share Image
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
“Words were sometimes like ammo. They could strike you with fear worse than an arrow. And worse was sometimes knowing ahead a… — Cyndi Goodgame 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… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
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