Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter where we are from, what language we speak or how we look like, it matters that we are all… — Lee Soo-Jun Copy Share Image
I cannot tell everyone what they must say or what they must not say. Everyone is the owner of their own words. — Manuel Pellegrini Copy Share Image
“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words,… — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they… — Adam Santo Copy Share Image
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me [on… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure… — Avery Sunshine Copy Share Image
“A truly enlightened attitude to language should simply be to let six thousand or more flowers bloom. Subcultures should be allowed to… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather's kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. 'Would… — Dan Rhodes Copy Share Image
Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are tattooed from head to toe. Some would never think of it. Some are rocking a mullet… — Travis Pastrana Copy Share Image
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. Words were not things you… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born… — Maria Canals Barrera Copy Share Image
Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
“...be aware of the fact that words, in and by themselves, have no reality, except in terms of the context in which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's… — Ian Gomez Copy Share Image
'One Leg Too Few' by Peter Cook is a perfect sketch. The setting is ridiculous, the language is beautiful, and the performances… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds… — Patricia K. Kuhl Copy Share Image
To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes! — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I figure if kids see a movie about 12-year-olds chopping each other up, they can probably see a movie where everyone keeps… — Tanya Wexler Copy Share Image
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an… — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
“Some people’s words stay inside us and have the power to change us and other people’s words are powerless, no matter how… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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