What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language. — Ernest Klein Copy Share Image
Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language. — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is? — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
“If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Just come to Brussels after a Council meeting. Do you know what happens? Every head of government holds his or her own… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“To describe an emotion is to feel with words. To communicate a moment of existence is to bridge the eternal and the… — Charles M. Heyworth Copy Share Image
“What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34."… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
“It's not the words that matter but the feeling you put behind them.” — Akeo Furukawa Copy Share Image
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words? — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone” — Kenneth White Copy Share Image
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
“I’m a woman who loves words, but there are times there are no words.” — Elizabeth Joy Arnold Copy Share Image
The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action. — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
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