“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.” — Nazım Hikmet Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of words, words hurt even more than actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers. — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of film is camera cuts, it's how they communicate. But games are different. We don't really need to do that.… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pronounce words, when you don't know the meaning of the words, how will you imbibe a… — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
“It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.” — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that… — Ernest Hogan Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
