Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage,… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
“My auntie Chava used to tell me to chew my words before letting them out. "Seven times, Majan," she would say. "Chew… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human. — John Grant Copy Share Image
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library:… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image