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[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. — Charlie Waite Copy Share Image
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language… — Amy-Jill Levine Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“PUPIL: Are the roots of words square? PROFESSOR: Square or cube. That depends. PUPIL: I've got a toothache.” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“This Bitter Language I know your streets, sweet city, I know the demons and angels that flock and roost in your boughs… — Elka Cloke Copy Share Image
“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote.… — Rob Riemen Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even though we don't speak the same language, we're friends. I still make him laugh. You know it's hard to make Fedor… — Quinton Jackson Copy Share Image
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“To satisfy themselves with this, they gladly grasp at words, especially those which denote indefinite, very abstract, and unusual concepts difficult to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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