“use of concrete language strongly correlates with a sense of social closeness, whereas abstract language correlates with social distance.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch,… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them. — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Words get used up like people, they loose their power and then they mean noting their just words in a sentence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you speak from the heart, no language is needed. When you speak from the head, only language can say something. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And… — Stromae Copy Share Image
From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I think myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language - really reminding people that the umbrella of jazz is… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We had to speak in a different dialect for '1666.' And when we were told that we would need to do that,… — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Everyday, there are words that are said, that people wish they could take back once said. But like the Internet, once its… — Bambii Copy Share Image
Words have no meaning until they are followed by action. Choose your words carefully and act even more cautiously. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
I think, as an athlete, you tend to be cautious of your body language and what you're doing on the ice. That… — Hilary Knight Copy Share Image
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
T.W.I.T.T.E.R T.ell W.orld I.nteresting T.houghts T.empting E.nvolved R.esponses I love to play with words — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Platforms have a responsibility, certainly with anti-bullying and looking at abusive language. Especially for young people at school, although that's not really… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
“I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image