To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding.… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My love language is gift giving. I like thinking of specific gifts for people. — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
“At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death; the walk with eyes… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
“Hello, little girl," he said, which was only his first big mistake. "I'm sure you want to know all about hedgehogs, eh?"… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Music psychology has been busy looking at the ways in which music might be similar to language, but Richman, Tannen, and others… — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
“You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“The four cruellest words in the English language are "I told you so.” — Lord Salisbury Copy Share Image
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The world is defined by smells – not words or shapes or sounds.” — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
