When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
I always choose to use the word often instead of (unintelligible). Just changing it up, changing it up. — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We've got to change the language of how women speak to women and how men speak to women and how we shame… — Hannah Brown Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
“Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I could go out and talk about President Clinton... or some issue, but people will be on either side. But everyone eats.… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“Learning a language happens in stages, and the first breakthrough is a limited understanding. Somehow the words began to make sense; I… — Vicki Archer Copy Share Image
The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The words that I say and things that I do are different than what I mean.~~~ — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light. — Valeria Lukyanova Copy Share Image
“Through His Word we fall in love with Him more, and because of this we love more.” — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself. — Harold E. Hughes Copy Share Image
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
