Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
“Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think… — Steven Adler Copy Share Image
“never to use the expression “mere words.” Words are never “mere.” They are strong and beautiful. Use them carefully, for language is… — Gary Henry Copy Share Image
“I hate textbooks. I hate how they shoehorn even the most incongruous words – like 'cup' and 'bookcase,' or 'pencil' and 'ashtray'… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and… — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on? — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“There was a whole vocabulary of suffering, eloquent in its wordlessness, which gave voice to all the things she couldn't do or… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The night, the lips lost all words, The moon said it all, The sweet secrets of midnight moments, Why darkness bursts with… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Words won't always work. So always express your feelings more in action than Words. Words fade. Memories linger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of… — Linda Nagata Copy Share Image
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“If an assemblage of words you’re using is creating states that disempower you, get rid of those words and replace them with… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image