North Korea and South Korea speak the same language, and actually, we are the same country. — Park Ji-sung Copy Share Image
“Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos. — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“They say words are windows to the soul. To me words show what is not always said. When I write, I give… — Rene Campbell Copy Share Image
If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing,… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
“When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for… — Orville Schell Copy Share Image
I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
“It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I studied Latin and did Latin declamation and also English language declamation. — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn. — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say — Don Watson Copy Share Image
