Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity” — Brian Kiteley Copy Share Image
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“What we think leads to the words that come out of our mouths. What we think and speak may be one of… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Music psychology has been busy looking at the ways in which music might be similar to language, but Richman, Tannen, and others… — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis Copy Share Image
I certainly self-police my language depending on who I'm talking to. I try to be very careful about using filler words, about… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller… — Georges Limbour Copy Share Image
Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the… — Jonathan Adelstein Copy Share Image
“This story, which takes place one a Sunday in July in a hot, deserted Lisbon, is the Requiem that the character I… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive." - on the making of the Oxford… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“If you’ve got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren’t certain what they know, concreteness is… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say,… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes… — Rachael Leigh Cook Copy Share Image
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
I like Robo Shankar - he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his… — Vivek Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins Copy Share Image
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words… Statements are made, words or sentences are used. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
“Nelson Mandela once said, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
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