We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking… — Sebastian Arcelus Copy Share Image
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players… — Eden Hazard Copy Share Image
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider’s web, spinning a make-believe life. That’s why we read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“What we're doing, or, I should say, what you're doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play… — John Logan Copy Share Image
So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“And I did not speak German well; I found the language harsh and guttural, my ear simply couldn’t find it pleasing, and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language? — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know he didnt… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Women lost for words, guess they dont know English. No matter what language they speak, they all know dinglish. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“The word ‘God’ is a part of language and its grammar. Even if the whole world turns atheist tomorrow, the incredible arrangement… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image