I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts,… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
A single word can undoubtedly be a repository of knowledge, provided you're willing to learn something new. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have… — Les Miles Copy Share Image
It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra'… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Listen to them again: ‘I love you.’ Subject, verb, object: the unadorned, impregnable sentence. The subject is a short word, implying the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the… — Wallace Pratt Copy Share Image
“It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.” — John Biggins Copy Share Image
The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well,… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that… — Chloe Rose Lattanzi Copy Share Image
“The forest wanted to beg for mercy but knew precious little about us. Pine trees roared like chainsaws, hoping this was the… — T.R. Darling Copy Share Image
“A man who eats his words is a man who lacks what it takes to speak his piece in this day and… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently… There's only the last page left to write on.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“At that moment, I had apparently signed a contract in blood. We all know the power of spoken words; well, they are… — Mariia Manko Copy Share Image
I'd be washing my dishes listening to Yiddish, I went to sleep listening to Yiddish and woke up listening to Yiddish. It… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me,… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
“Words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. A meter is a meter is a meter. Words shouldn't be allowed… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors… — Kim Jee-woon Copy Share Image
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
“Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in words, no matter if strung together by the most skillful man: I believe in language, which is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image