A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God. — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
“In NEWSPEAK, words like honor, justice, morality, democracy, science, and religion are eliminated entirely, being replaced by a single new word, CRIMETHINK,” — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“The words he had written wiggled off the page and escaped from the drawer. The letters stacked themselves, one on top of… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
“SIOP Feature 21 requires activities that integrate all language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking)—that is, forced output in English for all students,… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm… — Stromae Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly be a single word can a repository of knowledge. rather than provided that you are willing to learn something new, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A sentence can be interpreted in a thousand different ways at a time,but it stands to describe just one meaning at a… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I think that we need to allow words to be words. If my self-esteem and my self-worth linger on words that are… — Philomena Kwao Copy Share Image
What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings are the only form of art which will remain… — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
“On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Words are very powerful and they take on more power the more that they’re spoken.… the more that they’re said and read… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that… — Petr Cech Copy Share Image
I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
