How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“for journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all;… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
“Great moments are full of naked vulnerability, words merely reflect a primal or instinctual footprints that leaves trails of dust for those… — Val Uchendu Copy Share Image
“Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
If I have written anything, a person will comment using abusive language if they feel it's wrong. Why can't you relax and… — Divya Agarwal Copy Share Image
The gift of working on a Robert O'Hara play is that you have to trust his language. It's all in there. You… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Positive words will encourage and strengthen other people, but negative words will tear down and harm them. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
With comedy it's all about timing and presence on screen, as the words are there but you have to say them right… — Michelle Keegan Copy Share Image
“In other words, the more frequently you repeat a given word, the LESS likely you're going to rank well for that word.” — Michalis Kotzakolios Copy Share Image
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“The prose,” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
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