“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul. — Rosalia Copy Share Image
I think, whoever is making great films in whatever language is likely to do well. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in. — Liza Donnelly Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
“There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten how different my language looks on paper, that its letters have so little resemblance to how they actually sound.… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In… — Harry Dolan Copy Share Image
“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs.… — Harry Beckwith Copy Share Image
But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
