“... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged,” — Gary Edward Gedall Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy. — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
“philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate opposition: The people always meant some people and not others… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it… — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans,… — Phil LaMarr Copy Share Image
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
“Thanks to [language], human beings - and we alone - can truly enter and explore the feelings of others. What an extraordinary… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Your words are your own creation and every time you open your mouth, you show the world a glimpse of into who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's liberating to perform in another language. There are some subjects I would never talk about in French, where they see me… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
“The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
What the word IMPOSSIBLE says I M Possible. So everything which seems impossible is itself says that is possible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. You can't fuck yourself into a corner. "That's… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on… — Tanit Phoenix Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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