“He knew enough of their language to understand her words. But speaking” — Mark Wayne McGinnis Copy Share Image
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he"… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy."… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not… — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest.… — Glenn Dixon Copy Share Image
“She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“A whole spectrum of possible relationships comes to light, beginning at one pole with the pious and inert quotation that is isolated… — Mikhail Bakthin Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
