Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas. — William Labov Copy Share Image
I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot… — Gza Copy Share Image
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
“The most voluminous books on earth began each with a letter, then words; a phrase, then sentences. You never write great until… — Justice Israel Copy Share Image
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?'… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
