Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.” — John Green Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do… — Peter Hermann Copy Share Image
“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“When a writer puts words on paper, it is an intimate act. The reader hears your words in his voice and he… — N.M. Kelby Copy Share Image
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
What's unique for me, as an actor, is this idea that I don't have to be grounded to the natural law of… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Nick demonstrated twenty-three ways of communicating without words by fanning himself with a napkin. "This one means oops, your fly is open,… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
“In an article titled “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly,” he showed that couching… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing? — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“Did I spell the word “did” right? Of course not! I got my D’s mixed up.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The word "the" is 2/3rds he. I'm not being sexist, merely statistical.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Just because I believe in the power of words that doesn't mean that I believe every word. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it. — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
