I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
IF words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come from the tongue, they will not… — Al-Suhrawardi (Essential Sufism Copy Share Image
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally… — Prabhas Copy Share Image
As soon as you start speaking in a different language or with a different accent, it changes you as a person. — Ananya Panday Copy Share Image
“He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder… What we possess, if this is true, are… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Copy Share Image
“Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough. — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
I've always been, like, a book-smart person; I'm very into language and reading, and that really lends itself to comedy, because you… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
If and perhaps… The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Some time thousand words can not deliver a single message, But some time a few words can deliver thousand messages. Love you.” — M.Rishad Sakhi Copy Share Image
“While the clerks chatted in a language I could not understand, I hesitated, yearning to take everything home but unable to choose.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human… — Lari White Copy Share Image
If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language. — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
