Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I've learned to say Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke in 6 languages. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“I speak to everyone in the language they understand," said Ender. "That isn't being slick. It's being clear” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“there are words inside me that don’t want to hide anymore. Perfect or not, they don’t want to be safe for much… — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But… — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the… — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“But unlike this book, the dictionary also discusses words that are far more pleasant to contemplate. The word 'bubble' is in the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“Do you want to demonstrate that the living also have a wordless language, with which books cannot be written but which can… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
