“Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something. — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past:… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“In this way, the labor of learning was very considerably lightened, and everyone came to know a few words of each language.… — Johann David Wyss Copy Share Image
if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
“If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“Are you deaf as well as blind, woman? I’m not a carpet to walk over, and I distinctly heard myself speak. If… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If the voice is compassionate, clear, straight, considerate, pure and kind,then it makes no difference whether the person is he or she.… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but its when you put it down and live your life… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that… — Laura Bailey Copy Share Image
“Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors. — Tom Kelley Copy Share Image
“Also of great importance in the discovery of linguistic phenomena that led to cryptanalysis was the development of lexicography.” — David Kahn Copy Share Image
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.” — Amaleka G. McCall Copy Share Image
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word. — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“When you learn a language, you don't just learn to speak and write a new language. You also learn to be open-minded,… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.” — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
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