Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
“If you don't speak the language of love, you hear the world less and yourself more. And in your stubbornness, you fail… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell… — Prabhu Deva Copy Share Image
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“Word after word, minute after minute I chanted in a language more ancient than man, more difficult than women, more lengthy than… — Craig Halloran Copy Share Image
Once a century, all of a certain kind of bamboo flower on the same day. Whether they are in Malaysia or in… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It's never easy to switch from one football to another one, from one culture, one language to a new one. — Robert Pires Copy Share Image
When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in… — Suriya Copy Share Image
“English is the most dominant language in the world philosophically, culturally, and Jarod Kintzically.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
“Almost all instruction seems to revolve around language ac-(Jermaine spelling now) "q, a-kwi-si-tion acquisition!" ("What that?" I ask. "You know, to get.… — Sapphire Copy Share Image
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
“Body language is a very powerful tool... 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.” — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I got Cs in English at school. I hated it. But now I want to be a writer and I'm voracious for… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
“In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.” — William Carlos; Edith Heal Williams Copy Share Image
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“Just because you and your partner both speak English doesn’t necessarily mean you speak the same language.” — Michael Makai Copy Share Image
I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful. — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
