I always say to young people, "Get the hell out of the United States." Especially if you're young, like if you're 21… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Words can strengthen the weak, words can rejuvenate the meek - words can breathe life into the dead, words can unite the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders:… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
“At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenly the moon appeared from behind… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
I want to make movies - and I want to portray characters - that make people think. I want to make movies… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation…… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable,… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My dad felt oppressed by the hearing man. All his friends would express to me sometimes how oppressive their own country was… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is the language, maybe?” he asked. “I know the vocabulary, but still I am not capable to work the language the… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of fiction film where you have a story and you have to transform that into a visual language,… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture.… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Music was language in our house. It was air…I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance… — Irving Copi Copy Share Image
“…And you’re acting like I should be able to read something in your silence. The problem is that speech needs periods of… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
