Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the dictionary of successful persons, practice is the only word which does not allow in itthe entry of words like impossible. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion...… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“I suppose I shall start from the beginning. It appears that I'm utterly lacking in the knowledge of the basics. I mean,… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Vielleicht ist es so, dass nur das, was nicht ausgesprochen worden ist, durchlebt werden muss.” — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I choose silence to words as I cannot express my feelings and thoughts.” — Vasso Charalambous Copy Share Image
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
“To walk through unknown streets in cities where you are merely learning the language is to force yourself into a new state… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for… — C. N. Annadurai Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together.' — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
'Me too' was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanised the world. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
“The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into… — William Lindsay Gresham Copy Share Image
To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish… — Candace Kita Copy Share Image
Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
