“Words are born in thought, leaving lips, they acquire soul in the ears, yet sometimes this auditory magic does not make it… — Paulo Lins Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear." "Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?" "Poor grammar skills.” — Lita Burke Copy Share Image
The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee… — Roy Clark Copy Share Image
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
People appreciate those who've enabled them to watch highly entertaining movies by demolishing the language barrier. — Rajesh Khattar Copy Share Image
Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
One of the lesser-known ways of making new words is to form a blend - and a blend is when you run… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Mom’s working a lot on this big case. She’s tried to explain it to me a bunch of times, but she talks… — Jessica Burkhart Copy Share Image
“Your words are steering your life; they are your hands on the steering wheel of your life, moving it left, moving it… — Sam Owen Copy Share Image
And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Love is not a thing to be explained or to be taught, love can only be felt and its the language of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I never studied linguistics, Yet I became a linguistic enigma. The sun never studied nuclear fusion, Yet it is our planet's nuclear… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.” — John White Copy Share Image
Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language. — Hannah Teter Copy Share Image
“Florid language frequently leads to merry lovemaking when accompanied by the correct diction, syntax, and timing.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“And however perfectionist you tried to be, in the end words were alive, in constant flux. No dictionary could ever achieve true… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
*Fucking* I just a fucking word that you can fucking put any fucking where in a fucking sentence and it fucking still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal? — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at until you understood them, they couldn't change halfway through… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. — H. R. Haldeman Copy Share Image
You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
