The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Any word that you say can catch anyone's feeling so be careful by choosing words — Spido Copy Share Image
Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough... — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone — Al Capone Copy Share Image
In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The failure of language—the tyranny of moral generalization over social inspection—fed the ruling class’s belief that it was endangered from below.” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I can talk about my father in ordinary conversation without feeling more than the slightest pang of loss. But if I permit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?” — Ray Gwyn Smith Copy Share Image
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.” — Kristin Levine Copy Share Image
“Such language," Babette says. "Why don't you just take a dump in my ears!” — chuck pahlaniuk Copy Share Image
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“You know only all those fancy words that do you no good. You should really learn some serious words.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
“but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.” — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
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