Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The life you're living today is the exact picture you painted with your words yesterday.your talk is your future.your tongue is the… — Louis Jerry Wings Copy Share Image
When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
“when we identify with what another has said or written, we use those words as an articulation of our own inner voices,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Your language is a minority government where backbenchers rise suddenly, threaten to cross the floor, and what comes from your mouth is… — Adam Dickinson Copy Share Image
“On verge of going apostrophic, taking foxglove, myrrh, mare's milk cure, shedding articles, shredding conjunctions, but can't shake prepositions.” — Kate Campbell Copy Share Image
If I get angry about stuff - I have to say I can use quite fruity language at times which isn't to… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close.… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage,… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
There are no words, Yeah, I swear this much is true, There ain't a word in this world that describes you. — The Script Copy Share Image
"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne'er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Everywhere I have gone in the world, even though we don't speak the same language, food is the same language. — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
5 greatest words : I dun wanna lose U. 4 pleasant words : I care for U. 3 sweet words : I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come,… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
Before 'The Last Samurai,' I couldn't believe I could do that. I didn't think I would be able to explain myself and… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language. — Mantak Chia Copy Share Image
“Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at… — Charles A. Didier Copy Share Image
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The word sorry doesn't mean the guilt is there and saying I forgive you doesn't mean the hurt has gone away.” — Unknown Author 47 Copy Share Image
My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
