It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks… — Marc Prensky Copy Share Image
In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Whatever your eyes see and dont like enters your mind to create a word that will come out your mouth to get… — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves. — Joseph Pearce Copy Share Image
“Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“The incomplete vocabulary of strategy as an intellectual discipline limits the communication of the central concept of indirectness. This concept, as it… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“Small, forthright words, used in the service of condensing experience, might have an idea buried in them as large as the most… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“Rippling through these letters,’ Kemp detects, ‘are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Shockingly tactless,” Lady Warford said. “Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages” — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
A lot of the top managers are great watchers. They can tell by a player's body language whether he's in form or… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and… — Mark Dintenfass Copy Share Image
Words are the most precious thing. Words should be used with great care. Good words can make a man and bad words… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language. — Planningtorock Copy Share Image
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity… — Ron Jeffries Copy Share Image
I think being able to speak different languages, and being able to act in those languages is something that's really very rewarding. — Mido Hamada Copy Share Image
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language… — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
“The words of the wise are like cattle prods—painful but helpful. Their collected sayings are like a nail-studded stick with which a… — Ecclesiastes 12 11 Copy Share Image
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't… — Preneet Kaur Copy Share Image
“Ah, those eyes," he said. "They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The English language is damned difficult, but it's also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image