It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people. — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
“Words are like leaves blowing in the wind, they're hard to hold on to; but once you have it never let go.” — Kris Harte Copy Share Image
I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I love how words travel through time; across space and time like little comets, their various meanings burning off like tails behind… — Tess Kincaid Copy Share Image
“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop clerks… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would… — Steve Whitmire Copy Share Image
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
When we started on 'Power,' I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican, Nuyorican, Mexican, etc. I wanted the… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
“But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I should be better with my grammar and set a better example for my kids. Just not sure that ain't gonna happen. — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
There Are Thousands Of Languages Around This World But 'Smile' Can Beat Them All. Because 'Smile' Is The Language Even A BABY… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. — Horace Copy Share Image
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute. — David Abram Copy Share Image
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“A life in words”- I can’t find the origin of this phrase, but for much of my life I’ve felt this was… — Bronwyn Angela White Copy Share Image
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, “grammar.” And” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What appeals to me about 'Blind Willie' is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea - the grain of it,… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
“You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What's difficult to do in books for children is to create funny incidents. Funny images, funny language and any kind of taboo-breaking… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words,… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my… — Phil Neville Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
