The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Etc... A word used to make others believe that you know more than you actually do:P — Loi Lori Copy Share Image
The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.' — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.” — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the… — Orson Squire Fowler Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know… — David Small Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens,… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Whatever he writes will mean You have not silenced me. Despite all your power, you are not all powerful. Men have often… — Karen Connelly Copy Share Image
I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm… — Kara Goucher Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd. — Andre Bjerke Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it. — Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimistcom Copy Share Image
When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
When you're on the court with guys that know basketball, it's a universal language for us. — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here. — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience. — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. — Artur Davis Copy Share Image