Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“We were quite a team, I thought. One starts a task and the other finishes without a word being spoken.” — Cassie Dandridge Selleck Copy Share Image
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
“God. Love. People use words all the time. Doesn't mean they agree on their meaning. It doesn't mean they've thought through what… — The Man i The Booth at the End i Copy Share Image
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be… — Kim Gruenenfelder Copy Share Image
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“Unloving attitudes and words cause a “stench that the world can smell. . . . Our sharp tongues, the lack of love… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful.… — Emily Murdoch Copy Share Image
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber,… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
Hinting is the language of the coward who can't face others with their emotions fearing their reactions. But brave who faces anyone… — Gigi Copy Share Image
It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
“I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are... seductive. And I like words because… — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, Latin America's economy is almost as big as the economy of China. We're all focused on China.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.” — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
