“I bet you don't hear no a lot." "It's a dirty word. I'm not a fan of it.” — Katee Robert Copy Share Image
“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't. — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“And language, (...) is not just another faculty or skill, it is what makes thought possible, what seperates thought from nonthought, what… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form . — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
We are appropriating cultures, lifestyles, and language irresponsibly and passing it off as authentic; that's what troubles me the most. — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Art as language…in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on… — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
