It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“There's power in the words that come out of your mouth. Now imagine those words coming out of your red lipsticked mouth.… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines “freedom,” “truth,” “intelligence,” “fact,” “wisdom,” “memory,” “history”—all the words we live by. And… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
When I listen to an American singer, I wanna listen to his music in his language, because he's more spontaneous - he's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
“Gradually, the concrete enigma I labored at disturbed me less than the generic enigma of a sentence written by a god. What… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There is nothing hard for people to comprehend in Kalpop. Kalpop is music and the rhythm of the world. Music has words.… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser… — K'naan Copy Share Image
“Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“A Mannerist designer would attack the linguistic convention not by avoiding the use of the signal, but by misusing it notoriously.” — Bonta Copy Share Image
The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won.… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If you said to me, 'Let's walk to the shop,' you'd realise what you'd said and feel bad. But it's just language.… — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My work, my love of words, became my refuge, both when I was working on bilingual dictionaries for Oxford University Press and… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
