“You, however, will know that this magic consists of 3 words: details, dialogue and conflict.” — Andrii Sedniev Copy Share Image
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ — Brian H. Hook Copy Share Image
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I say bad words to express my feelings, not to tell that I'm a bad person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do… — Peter Hermann Copy Share Image
“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.” — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
