“A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“And for her, now, replaced by the plain language of the dogs, who in a few syllables have everything to say.” — Cleopatra Mathis Copy Share Image
She's not the one I want." His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since...since the minute I first saw… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language. — Ron Jaworski Copy Share Image
Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him." Philip… — Dean Lombardo Copy Share Image
The language has changed. When I grew up and watched the campaigns of John Kennedy, even with Richard Nixon, there was a… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The problem with stores and songs - no, scratch that, the problem with words -- is that they make us squeeze all… — Anne Corlett Copy Share Image
Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Admit something. Everyone you see, you say to them "Love me." Of course you do not do this out loud: Otherwise, Someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Slang, too, is the wholesome fermentation or eructation of those processes eternally active in language, by which froth and specks are thrown… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus. — Arthur Levitt Jr Copy Share Image
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Aaron stared down at his pad of paper, unsure. He said, “So what would be the best word for you? Vagrant?” Reacher… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me. — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.” — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“the words are only part of the poetic formula: the rest is ritual, and the reason in THEM must contend with the… — Laura Riding Jackson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable? — Rumi Copy Share Image
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
Purpose of the natural calamities are coming to understand symbolic language except.You are not tutors except some of toys — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
