“My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
“This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.” — Rick Aster Copy Share Image
I would like the power of words, so I could speak my mind and what's really on it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be unbroken, what would that be? If words that were spoken, had not shattered me” — ZOEgirl Copy Share Image
Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to. — George Burns Copy Share Image
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Etc: The word that makes people think you are smarter than you really are. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Writing 1000 words is only daunting if you haven't written them. When you're done, it's pie.” — Selena Blake Copy Share Image