If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. — John Locke Copy Share Image
I am not a word. I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined. I am… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking. — Neville Brody Copy Share Image
Fashion is a language, and therefore says something about politics, and certain fashion styles get associated with certain political standpoints. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“choose your words wisely, because they will influence your happiness, your relationships, and your personal wealth.” — Andrew B. Newberg Copy Share Image
When people start bitching they forget how words can cut.Many people get hurt that way.So think twice before you speak, you never… — Ewshy Copy Share Image
I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“I love vocab. It's like spelunking in a cave you've been in your whole life and discovering a thousand new tunnels.” — A.S. King Copy Share Image
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.” — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
“Few pay attention to the histories and the root pictures words can release. These neglected qualities are there, however, and the poets… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.” — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Words hold power. They can bring you from the lowest low to an ultimate high in a matter of moments, and just… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
Body language as a non verbal communication is very essential in any relationship, being completely oblivion of body language reduces chances of… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul — George Crumb Copy Share Image
