“miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately,” — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners. — William Colby Copy Share Image
Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Music is an international language and it's something that can connect people. — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
Words are too poor and too scant to express the inner most feelings in the heart of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media - you only have to look at 'mansplaining' and 'milkshake duck' to… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'. — Hal Eaton Copy Share Image
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that… — Parminder Nagra Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities. The first of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy?” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Keeping your word is never a problem; giving your word gets you in trouble. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“I speak many languages, but I only understand the language of kindness.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“And I know now words are my Tingalayo. Words are my brilliance.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“There were some things gestures could communicate that words never could.” — SM Reine Copy Share Image
