As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“The only way to defend language is to attack it…' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language,… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
“[B]ooks, which can be consulted at any time, questioned again and again, and read into scraps, cannot be rivaled as a language-learning… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
“(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I'm not just interested in the thoughts I have, but also in others' thoughts, and why not carry those forward? That's why… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Art is more than a sum of cultural signs: It is a language both direct and associative, and has a grammar and… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Growing up as a little, introverted boy, dance was the only way I could communicate. For me, it's the greatest language -… — Alyssa Edwards Copy Share Image
“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
One word is not enough to explain how much I love you, but the word YOU is enough to explain why I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. The words you use and think of, may have impact on your life. May you enrich your life with… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
Immigrants not only contribute to Houston's sociocultural fabric, including through their language, cuisine, faith, and customs, but are also an exceedingly important… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
“Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Weber sandstone a billion years old. This rock was Precambrian, I read, a term like postmodern, suggesting that what it names is… — Jim Paul Copy Share Image
“Kissed. Cath loved that word. She used it sparingly in her fic, just because it felt so powerful. It felt like kissing… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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