People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them. — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
Hey people that interject big words. Good grammar and vocabulary is important, but give me a break...I'm too lazy for word searching. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody;… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who hear you a billions word and but they still don't understand you,of who you.but the other people,they undertand you… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
“It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel if I'm playing an athlete, I know I have to prepare. I need to get that body language right, I… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“One spring patio is for rodeos niggled with iodine figures, weaved tapestries inside vast Tuileries. But that reminds me, how exactly do… — Adam Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students'… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and… — Missouri Williams Copy Share Image
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
“Accident: The Crash of Avianca Flight 052,” International Journal of Aviation Psychology 4, no. 3 (1994): 265–284. The linguistic indirectness” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We live in a Bramble of words created by our tongue. It gives us shelter and comfort just like the bird in… — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves. — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words. — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
“The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You… — Wolf Blitzer Copy Share Image