There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts investigate the properties of the world by playing with materials - such as stone, paint, fabric, synthetic substances, the human… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The secret to freestyling is working on the creation of thought and it being expressed from your cerebral cortex, to the air… — Myka 9 Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are a stand-up you can hone your material over successive performances, based on the audience response. Changing a single word… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what… — Gary Provost Copy Share Image
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then… — David Cross Copy Share Image
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Languages are terrific, but learning something totally different, such as Mandarin may exercise the grey matter more than just brushing up rusty… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share Image
fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language… — Pedro Passos Coelho Copy Share Image
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
They say 'A Picture' Is Worth A Thousand Words. But I think they're wrong. When I looked at yours, I was speechless... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“I think that if we can find the words, and if we can find someone to tell them to, then perhaps we… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
