“Didn't the old man know how words carry colors and sounds into the flesh” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
As long as I like the script, speak the language and feel interested in the plot, I can play any role. — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
“There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words, when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“He called it the Carrock, because carrock is his word for it. He calls things like that carrocks, and this one is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
“there are words inside me that don’t want to hide anymore. Perfect or not, they don’t want to be safe for much… — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“so word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The mirror does not lie. It has been taught to speak in the wrong language.” — Nikita Datar Copy Share Image
Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct. — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people. — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Words dont have power to hurt you unless the person who said them means a lot to you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language.” — Andrea Boeshaar Copy Share Image
“Should data be treated as a language, as fundamental to our existence as our linguistic substrates?” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
1.Adjustment is always better than Argument 2.A meaningful silence is better than meaningless words — Babloo Copy Share Image
I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
