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
... 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
“So words play a very important part in our lives. Our life, it appears, is a network of complicated, interrelated words. Words… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous… — M.J. Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by… — Gustave Flaubert 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“…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
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
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 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
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
