“HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper? MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing… — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
“True conversation is its own experience, and experience, not words, is the thing that brings people closer.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by… — Patricia Geary Copy Share Image
There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak. Her heart racing, at times entirely lost for words, ground and… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Mina, trust me, it's better if we don't discuss this anymore. Words have power and it makes it that much easier for… — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
I could give you example after example, of where the language of the far Right, driven by Islamophobia, has now become institutionalised… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
I forget about the consequences, for a minute there I lose my senses and in the heat of the moment my mouth's… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Words have power. And when you put them out there, it makes them real for other people, and maybe it changes the… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
I didn't quite realise until we started to put together our first cut of 'Wonderstruck' how much time is spent with no… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
“Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don’t realize the real power of words. But I… — Atheneum Books for Young Readers Copy Share Image
And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do! — David Almond Copy Share Image
Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience. — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a… — Dorothy Whipple Copy Share Image
I went to see some voguing ballrooms and krump battles, and I was hypnotized by their body language. These guys, who are… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Smile is a language that doesn't need to translate, spread it among you, it is a kind of charity that doesn't cost… — Carissa Aydaa Copy Share Image
“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,” — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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