To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes! — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we… — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
“The first surprise is that people’s guesses are much more accurate than they would be by chance. I find this astonishing. A… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in… — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
When the actual Bitcoin network launched in 2009, no one knew about it, and many of those who did thought it would… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.” — Justice Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us… — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing,… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
As actors, we shouldn't worry too much about the language we are going to speak in a film. — Anushka Shetty Copy Share Image
I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A day-time song like 'Word Starts Attack,' I want to make your heart blow up and make you want to punch the… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out. — James William Middleton Copy Share Image
all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this,… — Olivia de Havilland Copy Share Image
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders:… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
Being a person of little words isn't bad cause not every thing needs to be said. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho Copy Share Image
“I miss Latin. So much fun--all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then… — David Cross Copy Share Image
