It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Tragedy's language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is… — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He is a Londoner, too, in his writings. In his familiar letters he displays a rambling urban vivacity, a tendency to to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I'm very curious about people, and one of the most difficult truths for me to accept as a person is that I'll… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong;… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
When words come out of politician's mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out… — Ben Zimmer Copy Share Image
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“One of the undoubted virtues of English is that it is a fluid and democratic language in which meanings shift and change… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same… — Fay Chung Copy Share Image
“And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“It sees post-rock as an archipelago: islands that may speak different languages and are probably only on nodding terms with one another.… — Jeanette Leech Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Words are merely a thing but when it has a consience of who or what you are why give it all thats… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“I just meant that a guy who's guarded his heart for so long might not be in the best position to judge."… — Candis Terry Copy Share Image
“The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in "The Word" and filled the atmosphere with worship. Though I developed my own personal… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
Kelly reported, 'more video has surfaced showing this was not the first time Mr. Gruber called the American people stupid in an… — Alexander Viets Griswold Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation,… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
