Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language,… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Words are not (except in theirown little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them… — John Austin Copy Share Image
“One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
“For in Abraham man had learned beforehand, and had been accustomed to follow the Word of God. For Abraham, according to his… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Writing is… being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word .… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
“She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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“Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
“Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I suppose this is, in part, a cultural thing, but certainly in the U.K., I don't think we're particularly articulate in a… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Occasionally, well-intentioned legislation can fall apart because of a few misplaced words or technical language that was left out. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
“Duane: We are not enemies! We are Aldishmen! Aumut vaosa -- six years I've longed for a Tainish word from a friendly… — Ashley Cope Copy Share Image
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. — George Crane Copy Share Image
The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
![“Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_believe_man-usually-believes-if-only-words-he-he_1065968.jpg)
