To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of… — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a… — Nicola Haken Copy Share Image
And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have… — Gwenno Copy Share Image
“Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Jay: Looks like you misspelled the Treaty of Versailles. Sara: Yeah, well. My brother's natural ability for languages didn't rub off on… — Tracy Bilen Copy Share Image
“The pastoral task with words is not communication but communion - the healing and restoration and creation of love relationships between God… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“authoritarian institutions, such as governments and churches, do not use language but jargon, repetitive phrases that are not supposed to have meaning… — Norman Cantor Copy Share Image
You're going to come across people in your Life who will say all of the Right Words at all the Right times...… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Yes. Da ,' I corrected. 'Say it again.' 'What?"' His voice grew husky as he repeated his request. 'Say yes— in Russian… — Shannon Delany Copy Share Image
I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will… — John Gay Copy Share Image
“I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like… — C. N. Annadurai Copy Share Image
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
“From incoherent barkings of desire, man can advance to distinct speech now that, labelling the object with a name, he is able… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image