Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes.… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect,… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
A woman has last word in any argument..Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.. — Cheyenne Jones Copy Share Image
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Stop being silly, her name is Reshidatu. It is a pity that our official language is English, and a greater pity that… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Speaking and doing are two different actions springing up the two completely different results. But, the best result arrives when a mans… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
President George W. Bush was kind of a goofy tongue-tied dude. Mostly he just mangled the English language. Barack Obama, by contrast,… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Between you and me, the words, like mortar, separating, holding together those pieces of the structure ourselves. To say them, to cast… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair. — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard. — Immortal Tech Copy Share Image
And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life.… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
“Words are free. It does not mean you should abuse them. Be kind with them. They will mirror your actions.” — Hadinet Tekie Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine. — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words... — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Words matter. I encourage everyone to consider the meaning of their words from another person's point of view, as well as the… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a breathtaking moment; I spoke the language of the fleeing leaves When the sky is shrouded in darkness Of incoming Ravens… — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“...Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man… — Frans G. Bengtsson Copy Share Image
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
There are 1,025,109 words in the dictionary and not a single one of the can describe how I feel about you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.” — Federico Chini Copy Share Image
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
“Then, Jason looked up and asked, "Do you realized that there are more words for penis in English language then there are… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
When someone's words and actions are not lining up...go with their actions, every time. Actions say what words won't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
