“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.” — Pip Williams Copy Share Image
Language is the most powerful,convenient and permanent means and form of communication. — RMKATTA Copy Share Image
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are, what might have been — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I take back my words and won’t ask you for anything, for I know that you will do the best.” — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
“politics. Later, they read some more in bed, adhering to the tradition of circling the words she didn’t know and” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power. — Charles Capps Copy Share Image
I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. "Live free or die." Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image