“I write because words swim around in my head like unruly tadpoles until I do” — Maureen Tuohy Copy Share Image
“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.” — Nazım Hikmet Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of words, words hurt even more than actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'll sit at the computer at night and try to look up old Ojibwe symbols, and I always tinker with maybe doing… — T. J. Oshie Copy Share Image
If I have written anything, a person will comment using abusive language if they feel it's wrong. Why can't you relax and… — Divya Agarwal Copy Share Image
This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
The gift of working on a Robert O'Hara play is that you have to trust his language. It's all in there. You… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“Ebonics is not a separate language. It is ghetto speech and substandard English. To claim that ebonics is a positive way of… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“It has struck me that people seldom listen to the meaning of underlying words.There are only a few people who recognize the… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages. — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words—monstrous” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
A kiss is a charming deception planned by scenery to stop speech when words become excessive. — Spawasagir Copy Share Image
There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image