“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head bobbed out from the grotto of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest,… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
“And for her, now, replaced by the plain language of the dogs, who in a few syllables have everything to say.” — Cleopatra Mathis Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
'New Mutants' #100 went out the door with over a million copies. It is the highest-selling last issue of any comic ever.… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We speak Turkish at home, and I can speak the language. I have a lot of family there - I try to… — Emre Can Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that… — Julia Loktev Copy Share Image
Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
“In other words, it is a great deal more dignified to battle with words.” — Rick Johnson Copy Share Image
“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Your words create images and eventually you will live out the reality of that image.” — Charles Capps Copy Share Image
“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“skill-building” approaches, which feature explicit instruction in the formal aspects of language, have a poor record of success. Hence the dismal results… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
