It's an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words. — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“About six responses popped into my head, all of them full of course words.” — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is given to us. One moment of clarity. One word laid down, cold and clattering, beside another. Ribbon of wet… — John Gilmore Copy Share Image
I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
“You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races.… — Felix Clay Copy Share Image
Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“From unintentional hallucinations of large language models to deliberate disinformation campaigns, the very foundation of truth is under attack, with facts as… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls;… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
