Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head boobed out from the grotto of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“d] One speaks in a language one doesn't understand, uses money whose worth one does not know, and wanders down streets for… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape… — Christine Stockton Copy Share Image
The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language. — Prithviraj Sukumaran 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
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
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 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
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
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
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bachchan is the luckiest man on earth. No one knows the nuance of the Hindi language or can incorporate elements from stage… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“Words are like Spices Some are mellow Some are sweet Some are spicy And some are bitter Don't let the bitter ones… — Leeza Donatella Copy Share Image
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
“German wasn’t good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn’t… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Silent Love Does Not Have Words It Has Its Own Language, Which Can Only Be Heard By The Person We love...!! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
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