As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time. — El-P Copy Share Image
I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I started a company in 2005 for language services called Blue Elephant. We handle translation and interpretation services in over 120 languages. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“There were some things that needed to be said even if the person you were saying them to didn't understand; words that… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants.… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
“You’re going to do twenty briefings, and they’ll all sound exactly the same to you. But that’s what you want, because the… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Now no one is going to make you talk--possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“I don't know if it becomes literature...I just know the two added words cause me to look at the ordinary sentences differently.… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
“In this case, consulting the dictionary would simply mean discovering what one already knew, Dictionaries only provide information that is likely to… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image