“WORDS I carry a message that i cannot read. The words may be haunting or tender or sweet. Thought what it says… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church Copy Share Image
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia.… — Thalia Copy Share Image
“Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.'… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
When we started on 'Power,' I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican, Nuyorican, Mexican, etc. I wanted the… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.” — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five… — Yamini Krishnamurthy Copy Share Image
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
“Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.” — don Jose Ruiz Copy Share Image
RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language.… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
There should be no doubt about my commitment to responding to questions from reporters in the same language that the question is… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
“One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to… — Mark Abley Copy Share Image
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the… — Beppe Grillo Copy Share Image
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
