I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There are caregivers and there are caretakers, and yet the two words are not opposites. Why is this? — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” — Heidegger, Martin Copy Share Image
“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Language, be it remembered, is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the… — John Pollack Copy Share Image
Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another? — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.” — Yurii Ivchenko Copy Share Image
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you realize you've been mispronouncing a word your entire life... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
