My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money.… — Stephanie Beacham Copy Share Image
“The “b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds.… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Driving home, I heard the explosion and thought it was a new story born. But, Adrian, it’s the same old story, whispered… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a… — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
“You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words or just not knowing how to spell them. If we ever… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I normally do with long scenes is that I understand the emotional content and the words fall into place. — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family… — Karina Barton Copy Share Image
Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“First thing you learn travelling the long roads, kid: language is as much in the way you speak as the words you… — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“we need to listen like every sentence matters, talk like every word counts, and act like every interaction is important.” — Geoffrey Tumlin Copy Share Image
We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?... — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
