It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it… — Terry Fallis Copy Share Image
“I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Beliefs, and the feelings that we have about them, are the language that "speaks" to the quantum stuff that makes our realty. — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words, when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“He called it the Carrock, because carrock is his word for it. He calls things like that carrocks, and this one is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“For some moments in life, there is no need for words and all you have to do is to do the work… — Geoffrey Ocaya Copy Share Image
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
“There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one… — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you? — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary. — Willie Aames Copy Share Image
There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker,… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to… — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
“we must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is our duty… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
“When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
