It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal… — Alessandra Mastronardi Copy Share Image
“I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak… — Jennifer Varnadore Copy Share Image
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our… — Vellupillai Pirapakaran Copy Share Image
Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“Magic is the first language of the world. It was the language before words, before mathematics. Humanity can accept concepts like space… — Rosella Testa Copy Share Image
Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
A word or words/sentance is spoken with/then a thought or thoughts (are) put behind it or them. or a word or words/sentance… — Dena Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their… — Charles Capps Copy Share Image
“There was skill and fluency in the way he kissed her, for this was a language, too. Her body was learning it” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public. You never know which of them end… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
“[H]e emits a long sequence of hard consonants that, even though Ove does not understand them, he suspects to be various combinations… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so… — P.D.Q. Bach Copy Share Image
I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It's one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. — William James Copy Share Image
Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make… — Sapphire Copy Share Image
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native toungue is our true fatherland.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The people inside the company, generally two to three levels down, they know best what's wrong and how to fix it. It's… — Sandra E. Peterson Copy Share Image
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
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