It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten” — W.S. Merwin - Looking Up In The Garden Copy Share Image
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“we can't escape the erotic vocabulary of our culture any more than we can escape language itself.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“I stood in the horizontal and vertical cultures of words like a bar in a graph.” — Lisa Robertson Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do… — Peter Hermann Copy Share Image
“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When just one single word comes in action then it is called ‘Knowledge’ (Gnan) and even after reading all the scriptures but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
“Words are complicated and rarely express what you mean; not because feelings cannot be explained with words, but the moment that we… — Jeanette Ringel Copy Share Image
Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
''sometimes people talk in the same language and yet don't understand each other completely'' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Maybe,” he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, “she took advantage of me.” — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
The power of words written or spoken, have life. They can change the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that you say can influence a person; so choose your words carefully. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well. — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
