I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
“My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While… — Margaret Leis Hanna Copy Share Image
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the… — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
Bryzgalov isn’t just a running comedy act. He’s one of the league’s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the… — Ilya Bryzgalov Copy Share Image
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
