You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself. — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they… — David McDonald Copy Share Image
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language! — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers,… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them? — John Locke Copy Share Image
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Always think before you speak; You never know whose life you are affecting with your words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
