I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Good words are like a good vibration that should go in the universe-- for more and more people to feel its divinity. — Rajendra Kumar Copy Share Image
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
“What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition?… — Jonathan Blum Kate Orman Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
“Again, we go back to the power of words and how they can make you feel. They bring liberation or stagnation, they're… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
“Words. Just little black marks on paper. Just sounds in the empty air. But think of the power they have! They can… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of… — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.” — Rebecca James Copy Share Image
The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Before you speak, ask yourself this... IS IT TRUE? IS IT KIND? IS IT NECESSARY? Our words have the power to hurt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is… — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Chennai - the culture, the musicians, the audience... Language is not a barrier. It is all about… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
It's very easy to think about rhymes and just usage of words that sound good but don't mean anything. Basically, I try… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
“It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it… — Victor L. Wooten Copy Share Image
“[A] person is formed from a continuum of words and actions over time and cannot be reduced to a fixed “self” that… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” — Heidegger, Martin Copy Share Image
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