“Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.” — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. unknown” — ash Copy Share Image
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“no one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Guy1: Did you know that sugar is the only word in the English language that the su makes a sh sound? Guy2:… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“I lie and repeat these words over to myself, and find that they are capital. Little by little others come and fit… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to… — Steve McManaman Copy Share Image
“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions.” — Arthur Phillips Prague Copy Share Image
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Words don't go from the brain to the lips in time. That's what a stroke does to you... and that hurts me. — Lee Corso Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages. — William Golding Copy Share Image
When people talk good things about you in other languages and assume you can't understand is almost as good as when they're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know it are: what I write. But it does not know what the I am post because this language for me… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.” — Mark Abley Copy Share Image
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Words weren't a solace, but they focused one's emotions into something more tangible; they were splinters that could actually be pulled from… — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we… — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
