“Magnanimous of you.' His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“Language and Knowledge have certain limitations; they can go only up to a certain point, for beyond that lies reality.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! — Morris West Copy Share Image
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“Some speak to inform some speak to influence some speak to entertain some speak to persuade some speak to enlighten whatever the… — Srinivart Copy Share Image
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Being created in the image of our omnipotent God, our spoken words are potent. Speaking what we believe—even from ourselves to ourselves—is… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Clearing his throat, he rumbled, "Miss Darling, a word if you please." "Sesquipedalian," she said, keeping her back towards him. The strange… — A.C. Warneke Copy Share Image
problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I 'do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop clerks… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment. — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it… — Jain Copy Share Image
Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to hear that?” — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
“There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
