“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other” — Lance Conrad Copy Share Image
No, you can't take back your words. Because once you say them, there's no refund. — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“In other words, it is a great deal more dignified to battle with words.” — Rick Johnson Copy Share Image
The rose speaks o love silently. in a language known only to the heart of heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“I've missed you." The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks… — Marc Prensky Copy Share Image
“Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Shockingly tactless,” Lady Warford said. “Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages” — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“The incomplete vocabulary of strategy as an intellectual discipline limits the communication of the central concept of indirectness. This concept, as it… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
A lot of the top managers are great watchers. They can tell by a player's body language whether he's in form or… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
“There are over 10,000 idioms in American English, and some of them have been in use for more than 2,000 years, while… — Gail Brenner Copy Share Image
Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sarina has changed so many things about England and how we approach things, the direction we want to head in, the language… — Alex Greenwood Copy Share Image
My wife and I had words the other night. . . . . . . . . . Well, I had words; She had paragraphs. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language? — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is? — David Levithan Copy Share Image