That awkward moment when you spell a word so wrong that even auto-correct is like 'I got nothing, man.' — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“So much to say, but no words strong enough to clear the air between us.” — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
Life is like a song, you don't know the words right away, you have to learn them as you go along. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world.… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words]. — Keli Goff Copy Share Image
“the communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living"--The Little Gidding” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“...deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.” — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patten of… — Greene Copy Share Image
“the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it,… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“if you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take—if you thought at all? Of course you thought—she had never… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Think before you speak, words can hurt and once it's been said, you can never take it back. — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in. — Liza Donnelly Copy Share Image
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
How can you believe on the word believe, when there is a lie in center ? — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image