Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a… — Mary Brave Bird Copy Share Image
“The most powerful thing you can give in life is a word.The most dangerous thing you can hear is a word.” — Dr Munroe Copy Share Image
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Fashion matters to the degree that it is, for the sighted person, the first language we speak to each other. We are...… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure'… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B,… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
“People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Lately she had decided to purge certain words from her vocabulary and now that she recalled that decision, why not start with… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language. — Austin Elliot Copy Share Image
At 14, I started reading popular scripts, wanted to learn Telugu, read books and improve my language. Then I got married at 15. — Sowcar Janaki Copy Share Image
It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made… — Brian McDermott Copy Share Image
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
When there's a chance, always choose actions instead of words. Words are merely words without any proof. — Modestas Rinkevicius Copy Share Image
To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
“Words are my matter—my stuff. Words are my skein of yarn, my lump of wet clay, my block of uncarved wood.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
It was complicated in Italy - not just for the language, but also for the way I transmitted my messages and my… — Frank de Boer Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also… — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
