Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language… — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“She looks like there are no words inside her at all, like language has taken a vacation from her life and left… — Meredith Miller Copy Share Image
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Now the room has the contours and atmosphere of all rooms in which people stay awake talking. The fluorescent light is grainy,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“This is my song for Gabriel, The Angel of the Word, I've sung to you so many times, This time I may… — Philip Dodd Copy Share Image
“There are five language-sets in particular which they employed for this purpose. Briefly, they are as follows: Wisdom, Torah, Spirit, Word and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“Words are things. A small drip of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps even millions.” — Bryon Copy Share Image
I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement... I'm a… — Daniel Logan Copy Share Image
“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
“Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives;… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
I don't like the way the E.U. leaders are trying to punish us or the language of divorce. It's a business partnership,… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“He’s a damned fine catch, and word on the grapevine says he’s a wonder in the sack. A walking, talking wet dream,… — Jess Haines Copy Share Image
