One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen. — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried… — Scott Cawthon Copy Share Image
I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator. — Nuno Espirito Santo Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition?… — Jonathan Blum Kate Orman Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from… — David Berman Copy Share Image
