Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“Being able to use words properly was a great advantage, for the more words you knew the meaning of, the better you… — Anne Holms Copy Share Image
“Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“It's almost as if we're afraid of words. They hang in the air, unspoken, and then seeing that they're not going to… — Crystal Chan Copy Share Image
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
After [Donald] Trump and his campaign manager both initially denied having anything to do with the platform change, a Trump campaign official… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated… — Arthur Moeller van den Bruck Copy Share Image
“. . . to my surprise I began to know what The Language was about, not just the part we were singing… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Does it matter that people and things Have words, Have names? If not, Why read any book? A litany of useless letters… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Words are useful, sir. That's from the communicating point of view. They come into their own then. When you think about it,… — Bill James Copy Share Image
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of… — Dawn Tripp Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would use that word, 'trailblazer.' That implies that this huge crowd followed me, and that certainly is… — Michael Bastian Copy Share Image
The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
“It’s like you’re a book I’ve read a thousand time without ever picking up. Your prose that effortlessly falls off my tongue… — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Words are gold, split and shared as coinage, small pebbles, emblems offered back and forth-given, received; given, received-expanding the vocabulary of the… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped… — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player. — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“a kind of story interested in using the language of dreams and fragments, vague impressions, snatches of scientific discourse, in order to… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
“We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image