“To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“Be kind to our language: avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Estonia maintains a two-language school system. I don't know many countries in the world that provide a system like ours. We are… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding,… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing," Frances informs her niece. "That's why language… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Centers of trade and colonialism—which tend to develop near large bodies of water for reasons both obvious and occulted—tend toward the polylingual… — Greg Stolze Copy Share Image
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymoogy: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“English the differences between things and actions are clearly, if not always logically, distinguished, but a great number of Chinese words do… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Lexium (TM): Trouble with limited vocabulary? These slow-release capsules are imbued with the latest in infra-cerebral nanobots that will gradually encode your… — Kane Faucher Copy Share Image
The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor.… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
“My people? Who are they? I went into the church where the congregation Worshiped my God. Were they my people? I felt… — Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its… — Eiji Aonuma Copy Share Image
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
