“I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel] 'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.' 'Since when?” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Ima Doo ( Mee ) ; Likee I Been Doingg . What'ree Words Too Mee ? N o t h I n… — Jamecia W Copy Share Image
There is no place on or off the court for language that disrespects anyone's sexual orientation. That is not who I am… — Rajon Rondo Copy Share Image
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear the word wait anymore .. because the person who told me to wait don't even realize that… — Jaypee Copy Share Image
Ability to speak the majority language is not just important for inclusion; it is important for minorities to be able to claim… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've never been short of words. I think my mum will tell you that. I think I've known that since primary school. — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
“The caress of each word becoming one with the page. Twisting beneath the touch of the pen, forming a trail of permanent… — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“[L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking… — John Wiswell Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In 'W,' I did not change a word in the script. I have never spoken this much in other series. I just… — Lee Jong-suk Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical. — Warwick Thornton Copy Share Image
Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
“Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it in your mouth first,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect,… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image