I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
“The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if… — Moshe Seidel Copy Share Image
We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things, — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“Do you want to demonstrate that the living also have a wordless language, with which books cannot be written but which can… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They… — Tim Radford Copy Share Image
I got a alot of forigenier at my school so alot knowns different language. One of my teacher is one she Korean… — MrCountry Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“During a conversation, it is better to have an understanding without words, than words without understanding.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Words...are cheap, and easy. It is the hard, our actions, that truly define us. What do yours say about you? — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky. — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill… — Chuang Chou Copy Share Image
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
Body language is a language that no one knows. but when you do people can have the right to sew you, cause… — Ghassan El-labadi Copy Share Image
Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile,… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Ur going to come across people in ur life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But… — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
It is strange that sword and words have the same alphabets and even more strange that they have the same effect if… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy." from Onyx” — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image