“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hand. — Sharon M Draper Copy Share Image
Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Look at me. I'm an immigrant. When I came to the United States as a young girl, I didn't speak a word… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
I do not so easily think in words… after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language.… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
“Though bad names and deeds those bring them spread fast, words of praise from selfless tongues pass miles and to million faster.” — Doctor Kesi Copy Share Image
Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship. — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them… — Ato Boldon Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of… — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.” — Melissa Wiley Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Alas, Tis true that words are queer And yet my son, you need not fear. For in this volume can be seen… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience. — Song Kang-Ho Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Don't waste words with people who deserve your silence, Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
