A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood. — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
“There was only one huge world with no back to it A world like a sun One day it broke into tiny… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It's his use of… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
“Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“One danger zone is dialogue ... At the moment of ultimate showing, we writers get nervous. ... We allow characters to tell… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“We might have the most beautiful words and thoughts - but it's actions that count.” — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten” — W.S. Merwin - Looking Up In The Garden Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“I stood in the horizontal and vertical cultures of words like a bar in a graph.” — Lisa Robertson Copy Share Image
''sometimes people talk in the same language and yet don't understand each other completely'' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
