I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and… — Eve Torres Copy Share Image
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You… — Robert Loggia Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“But sometimes you don’t say the word because you think a thing is ongoing when actually it is already over. The” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Language needs creativity and imagination to work, if not it will seem and sound stupid with its lack of sense and meaning” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
“There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow.… — Jenn E Copy Share Image
“He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even… — Bill Granger Copy Share Image
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book: When all of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“they put their faith in their intellectual assets and attained material success with admirable speed. To speak in everyday language: they got… — Götz Aly Copy Share Image
I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Jacinda, will you listen to me?" "Not if your words have anything to do with 'this isn’t right' or 'Jacinda, this can’t… — Dominique Eastwick Copy Share Image
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me… — John Edgar Wideman 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… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning. — Yuna Copy Share Image
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
