In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced… — Darach Ó Séaghdha Copy Share Image
Each language is a different lens from through which you view the world. So, learn as much as you can! — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
No words I'm tired to people strive all are able to bear no matter how difficult it is. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed. — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“That's just like the manual says," said Witherwax. "If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody… — Fletcher Pratt Copy Share Image
I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need… — Andrew Curry Copy Share Image
That Awkward moment when your in front of the class making a speech and Spanish teacher try to correct you how to… — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
“What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. She would crawl into… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, our imperial global Anglo-American language is dull with the glitter of its own decay. In response, the new meta- physical poet… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.” — Melissa Wiley Copy Share Image
“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“He grew interested in words as a means of communicating thoughts and feelings, and majored in linguistics in college.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does. — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
