I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language...… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
To hear someone talk about their life - you get to know the way their eyes moisten up, how big the smile… — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point?… — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially… — Steve Bullock Copy Share Image
I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
When am I gonna understand and accept the fact that its over? O-V-E-R, its just a simple word that's so hard to… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said. — Valentin Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“changing a culture meant changing the conversation. And, to change the conversation, people would need new words, especially words about behaviors that… — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold… — Mona Naqi Copy Share Image
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know… — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
Moving to France is not the hard part. Living here is more difficult. Of course there are many benefits but it's not… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
Never use curse words, foul language, or racial slurs, or say anything about a person's appearance. Just work with being smart-mouthed. — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the… — Patrick Mouratoglou Copy Share Image
“I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls, And woke to find it true; I wasn't born for an age like this; Was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You may be wonderful with words, but your best writing comprises of the words that had been said to you by somebody… — Gaurav Sharma Copy Share Image
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
“How people think about time and space, and about things and processes, will be greatly influenced by the grammatical features of their… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
“His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body.” — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
