Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Having God as an identity marker is nothing but a label, a language, and a lifestyle. I'm a Christian. I talk like… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now,… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street… — Denis Lavant Copy Share Image
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message. — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they… — Bronson Pinchot Copy Share Image
“The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
“But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my… — Ali Harris Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Football is being used as a language in that project...The vital message being communicated to the boys and young men is about… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language...… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
![“[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c0/catherine-camus-12238_algeria_albert-camus-really-did-know-algeria-he_803963.jpg)
![“I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-s_78966.png)
