Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word. — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak. — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
“there are words inside me that don’t want to hide anymore. Perfect or not, they don’t want to be safe for much… — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I speak to everyone in the language they understand," said Ender. "That isn't being slick. It's being clear” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“so word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although… — Ida Hattemer-Higgins Copy Share Image
“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“When life seems like an uphill task do not ever give up on yourself or on life! Travel to a new place,… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.” — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.” — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.” — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much? — David Levithan Copy Share Image