I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different… — Jack White Copy Share Image
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I… — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from… — Jack Jason Copy Share Image
“I am finding I like my new vocabulary. Cock, pussy, and fuck. My three new favorite English words. I want to shove… — Sawyer Bennett Copy Share Image
I've had fans coming up to me and speaking Chinese or Japanese. It's not a case of mistaken nationality. I just don't… — Park Ji-sung Copy Share Image
“It was interesting to see the change that came over Boris when he was speaking another language—a sort of livening, or alertness,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making… — Mark O'Connell Copy Share Image
When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak. — Warwick Thornton Copy Share Image
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret]. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to… — Stromae Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A teacher asked her class for sentences using the word beans.. My father grows beans, said one student. My father cooks beans,… — Butterfly_Kisses Copy Share Image
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