Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
I think anyone who's been around me knows that I left home at 15 alone, to go to a country where I… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory… — Matthew Dunlap Copy Share Image
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Love a word that fills the stomch with butterflys when said. A word more missed used then truly what it was ment… — Marcus White Copy Share Image
This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“To walk through unknown streets in cities where you are merely learning the language is to force yourself into a new state… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better… — David Crow Copy Share Image
“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The power that words can hold is nothing short of amazing. They can hurt you, and they can heal you. Or, they… — Carian Cole Copy Share Image
“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“To be able to use the Japanese tongue as a Japanese uses it, one would need to be born again, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.” — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary. In England, they teach you words. Over here, they don't seem to… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
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