“They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It's like he knows everything. And I don't have to say a word.” — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which… — Robert Leighton Copy Share Image
Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And… — Kabir Copy Share Image
It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
“There is power in words. There are words that bid us laugh and make us weep. Words to begin with and words… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most problematic word in America is the word "problematic." It's a wuss word used by people to silence language without actually… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.” — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image