When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. — Mark Pearce Copy Share Image
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Let’s start simple—what’s your verb?” Carl asks. “What do you mean, my verb?” “A nurse nurses, teachers teach and preachers preach. If… — Ian Bull Copy Share Image
When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But… — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the… — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
“there are words inside me that don’t want to hide anymore. Perfect or not, they don’t want to be safe for much… — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“so word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I speak to everyone in the language they understand," said Ender. "That isn't being slick. It's being clear” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes! — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“Prepositional verbs grow like toadstools. Once there was credit in facing a problem. Now problems have to be faced up to. The… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap. — Beppe Grillo Copy Share Image
Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
