In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Sometimes there aren't words for how you feel you wish if someone just Understand you — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral. — Ted Berkman Copy Share Image
“It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Character is a word that seems to define almost all human activity and then some — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
Only cheap people use cheap and filthy words, because they just can't afford good words :) — Anas Copy Share Image
I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Though we have our own native flavour for each state or country, music has no language. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“There it was again, another strange usage. 'We had words.' Everyone has words...What a useless euphemism. The phrases that people used to… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I want to make movies - and I want to portray characters - that make people think. I want to make movies… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
“On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them. — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions,… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
“Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.” — Ariel Sabar Copy Share Image
Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten. — Jerome Roldan Copy Share Image
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. — Edith Head Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
