“As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“As soon as the words leave her mouth, I'm completely consumed by a sense of peace. For the first time since the… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language.… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Actually is a word that has been degraded to adornment and punctuations, but it has a meaning too: it means right now,… — Megan Stack Copy Share Image
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and… — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard. — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either. — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Words are everything in this life - they can tear you down and abuse you, or they can make you feel so… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.” — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
