But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us. — John Birmingham Copy Share Image
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become… — James Welch Copy Share Image
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“The air stilled, suspended with unspoken words, heavy thoughts, and two people who couldn't look away from one another.” — Jenny B. Jones Copy Share Image
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be "To abridge, expand,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Friends: a seven letter word that I couldnt live seven seconds without. — Narenkumar Copy Share Image
“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.” — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It’s” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
As my primary language was English, I had to work on my Hindi. I wasn't so comfortable with it. — Mandira Bedi Copy Share Image
Though I read and speak Malayalam, Malayalis won't accept outsiders speaking their language. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility. — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
