“Come, boy, it is time for a lesson. Let me teach you the power of words,” — John Gwynne Copy Share Image
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that… — Steve Hackett Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.” — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.” — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
Words are wonderful gifts given to our voice, they may often become noise; but silence is always golden, it gives us power… — Chinmoy Sarkar Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
If we're in a scene together, I want to give you something that allows your performance to be truthful. In football, if… — Nnamdi Asomugha Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The success of language in conveying information is highly overrated. ” — Robert Bolton Copy Share Image
The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way to express yourself, you can give one word a thousand meanings — Kendyl Smith Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I'm not having fun. — Ron White Copy Share Image
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It's just words and words mean nothing. Only action does."-- Aiden” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language. — Georgette Mosbacher Copy Share Image
