If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Regret is one the scariest words in any language and success is one of the most beautiful ones. What are you waiting… — Farshad Asl Copy Share Image
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
May be you can never understand the languages of different people, but you can always understand them with their behaviour... — Rohit Padhra Copy Share Image
“But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The problem with natural language processing and the thing that really holds the technology back, is that when it crashes and burns,… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is the side opposite the right angle". A sentence that later flabbergasted the inhabitants of el… — Luis Sepúlveda Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language,… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
I always tell young journalists to leverage what you have. If you have a particular language skill or access to a particular… — Mariana van Zeller Copy Share Image
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests. — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart,… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
All I care about is that the audience should remember me for the character I play. I want to be part of… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
“My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
