Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Recognize, though, that graphs and equations provide an economical and effective way of expressing things that torture the tongue.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor. — Tim Hawkins Copy Share Image
There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words. — Jeremy Jordan Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've always been able to copy the mannerisms and body language of everyone around me. — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“We need the word of God to grow in our faith but we need the voice of God to survive the odds… — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of… — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
