“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
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.” — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do.… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those… — Horace Copy Share Image
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. — Mary Wigman Copy Share Image
One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is. — Sjon Copy Share Image
“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
It's not hard to form the words, it's hard to say them, to make them reality... — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Everyones middle name should be, motherfuckin...try it. Doesn't it sound so great? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
“Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
