The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm… — Psy Copy Share Image
...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
A careless word may kindle strife.a cruel word may wreck a life,A timely word may level stress.But a loving word may Heal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable… — Byron White Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“Transitioning from their first language to English before they have a firm grasp of their first language, usually by the end of… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Language, be it remembered, is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the… — John Pollack Copy Share Image
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and… — Natalie Cole Copy Share Image
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things — Confucius Copy Share Image
Words have power, and especially in the realm of beauty, how we speak about ourselves is important. — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
These words are all I have so I write them I need them just to get by. — Fall Out Boy Copy Share Image
“I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left. — Gilbere Forte Copy Share Image
