There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine,… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
As we've seen over the course of the Trump administration's tenure, words can prove just as destructive as laws. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Only word The shortest word for me is I, the sweetest word for me is LOVE, but the only word for me… — Biralo Copy Share Image
“I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words,' objected Milo. 'Of course, of course, everyone here… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian,… — Michelle Hunziker Copy Share Image
Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
“I have written you a hundred letters, each one folded into the quiet between breaths, sealed with the weight of words that… — Mason Carter Copy Share Image
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able… — Aacharya Mahapragya Copy Share Image
Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory;… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words]. — Keli Goff Copy Share Image
“the communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living"--The Little Gidding” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“...deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.” — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world.… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me...unless the words were from someone I thought was my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My place is cemented in Malayalam films. Malayalam is not my language and it felt alien to me. But for them, I… — Meghana Raj Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image