The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life. — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“...he wonders by what process virtually any discussion about the war seems to profane these ultimate matters of life and death. As… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
When Nigeria actually gave me the call-up I thought 'oh, it's going to be a challenge, I don't go back there a… — Alex Iwobi Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
The awkward moment when you spell a word but it looks wrong, so you stare at it forever,questioning it existance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is an international language and it's something that can connect people. — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
“In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on.” — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, but bad language is bound to make in addition bad government, whereas good language is not bound to make bad government.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image