Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.” — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
“Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!” — Aneta Cruz Copy Share Image
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who… — Tim Cameron Copy Share Image
“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.” — Alessandro Volta Copy Share Image
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me — Chow Yun-Fat Copy Share Image
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Typically, when I'm acting on set, I rely so much on the non-verbal: body language and all the unsaid things that make… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality.… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, "I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“A Blessing on the Poets Patient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker, Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover, Sharer and saver, muser and acher, You who… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“You have stricken my heart with your word and I have loved you.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. — Mary Wigman Copy Share Image
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress — Anonymous Copy Share Image
