“There is a little word that we can say to others now. "Thank You Very Much".” — Marya Sy Copy Share Image
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
We do a thing here at Arkansas that we teach Football IQ and call it 'Hogonese.' They are classes year-round where we… — Bret Bielema Copy Share Image
Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“They feed back exactly what is given them. Because they do not believe in words - words are for "typeheads," Chester Anderson… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English… — John Kani Copy Share Image
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
When am I gonna understand and accept the fact that its over? O-V-E-R, its just a simple word that's so hard to… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language. — Momo Hirai Copy Share Image
In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi Copy Share Image
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
“The word for 'book' in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, 'chamber of words'...” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
Learning a new language is like tabula rasa: You're a blank page, whatever you bring me, I will learn. — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
