“Why the words are called the way they are? Why certain sounds represent certain words, with their own meaning?” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Language is not unlike art in that words contain values of lights and darks, hues and tonalities, texture and sensuality. Words can… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Twenty-six words are different from each other by agreeing on everything, but together can do anything, but twenty-six human beings can never… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so… — Zach LaVine Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel,… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other… — Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Copy Share Image
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Word of mouth is often louder than word of hand, although applause can be deafening. I clap like Helen Keller drank coffee—with… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which… — Robert Leighton Copy Share Image
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a… — Sylvia Hoeks Copy Share Image
“We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
As cliche as it sounds, there's a reason why people always say that music has no language; it transcends language barriers. — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action. — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image