Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is great as a form of digital money, but its scripting language is too weak for any kind of serious advanced… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
I do believe that in America there needs to be a primary language and that English should be that language, it's not… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
“[T]he 'subject-in-process' [is] a term I use heuristically to capture the idea that subjectivity is constituted (by language, discourse, or power), inessential… — Moya Lloyd Copy Share Image
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
“In simple terms, the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience, and participate in them and dramatically… — Gary John Bishop Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“But there are some times when words are necessary - when explanations are needed that mere gestures cannot convey.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
'Minari' was only eligible for the best foreign language film category due to the HFPA rules on language, so the film was… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“five different love languages: quality time, the giving of gifts, acts of service, physical touch, or words of encouragement.” — Kate Kennedy Copy Share Image
You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“A person who believes every word that is spoken or read has an inbuilt fool for an interpreter and leads a life… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In school we only learn to recognize the words and to spell but the application of these words to real life is… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's… — Dolores Hitchens Copy Share Image
You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“He has his world and I have mine and we each speak our own kinds of English in them. But we also… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image