We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828 — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.” — Tom Kane Copy Share Image
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Let them leave language to their lonely betters Who count some days and long for cer- tain letters; We, too, make noises… — Ronald Everett Capps Copy Share Image
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Now the room has the contours and atmosphere of all rooms in which people stay awake talking. The fluorescent light is grainy,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
I feel if I'm playing an athlete, I know I have to prepare. I need to get that body language right, I… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural. — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image