We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood. — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
“Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Language bears the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
