“Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now… — Mark Jason Dominus Copy Share Image
I prefer working with new talent irrespective of whether they know the language or not. At the same time, I have been… — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in… — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was… — Colette Copy Share Image
In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and… — Rick DeMarinis Copy Share Image
“Leonard is far and away my least favorite relative, and I have no clue why I call him one night, collect, very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it… — Michael Crawford Copy Share Image
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it;… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
“Fuck', I think. What a beautiful word. If I could say only one thing for the rest of my life, that would… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well. — Fabinho Copy Share Image
A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the… — Rakul Preet Singh Copy Share Image
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“O dear white children casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words, So gay against… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to… — Jim Calhoun Copy Share Image
The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Sometimes, words aren't enough to make someone feel that you care for them. It needs a little efforts to convince that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
A rather painful aspect of using an unknown language is that you dont even realize that you've offended someone unknowingly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
