I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So what I don't say the three most important words that doesn't mean anything — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Things get damaged; things get broken. I thought we'd manage with words left unspoken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn. — Warwick Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language. — Sonny Bono Copy Share Image
“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that… — Cheris Kramarae Copy Share Image
It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“The next night, alone in the tent, Laurent said: 'As we draw closer to the border, I think it would be safer--more… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“how powerful words could be. They could heal a broken heart. Give hope to the hopeless. Give inspiration to the dispirited. Give… — Melanie Shawn Copy Share Image
I think, in terms of looking at the trajectory and being around some of the same people, it's certainly flattering words, but… — Sean McVay Copy Share Image
To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“I step around in a field of words, just trying to find the right ones to pick for you. ” — Larissa Ellis Copy Share Image
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. — Patricia K. Kuhl Copy Share Image
Those three words can change your life if you hear them from the right person. — LivinBreathinHel Copy Share Image
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us. — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prepositions are painful, articles are arduous, adjectives are wild overachievements.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image