I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language. — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Words can come and go. Your acts are going to speak for themselves. — Javier Hernandez Copy Share Image
“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There are old sellswords and bold sellswords, but no old bold sellswords.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Strong communicators increase their influence because they are intentional and focused with their language.” — Dianna Booher Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous how the United States practically every week sanctions Cuba and then uses manipulative language to say this is 'helping' the… — Miguel Diaz-Canel Copy Share Image
I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“About six responses popped into my head, all of them full of course words.” — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
It's an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words. — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Never underestimate how much words can hurt. Think before you speak because you might regret it later. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
