Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I… — Carmen Miranda Copy Share Image
“Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too… — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new,… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I… — DeLisha Milton-Jones Copy Share Image
“A Word If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but leaves it on its own it means nothing.… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“...yes, words were superior; they maintained a superior control; they touched without your touching; they were at once the bait, the hook,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When I made 'Whale Rider' - of course, I'm not Maori and have no business, as a white girl, telling people how… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
SHAKESPEAR says: Speak less to people you love the most 'coz if they can't understand your silence they can never understand your… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me, and I wonder why I ever… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Technology has also rapidly invaded our language. Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds new words that it feels deserve to be… — Adam Gazzaley Copy Share Image
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant… — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night,… — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
![“[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c9/friedrich-nietzsche-15_artificial_heraclitus-language-dispenses-with-light_2731880.jpg)
