My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that shes growing old, T is for the tears she… — Asheya Copy Share Image
There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“only after we have understood what means he had of saying anything can we understand what he meant to say, what he… — J.G.A. Pocock Copy Share Image
“On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Person, Place, Thing (Noun); Describes Action (Verb); Modifies Nouns (Adjective); Answers the W Questions (Adverb); Joins Words Together (Conjunction); Things We Say… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
“Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over. ‘One long difficult word… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to work in our lives. Read Colossians 3:16—4:1 and you will see a… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
English may be the fastest moving language in the world, but there are plenty of concepts, sensations and everyday occurrences which lack… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six… — Rin Chupeco Copy Share Image
I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no… — Rasmus Lerdorf Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T.… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths,… — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I started playing cricket, I knew that my physique is not at all like a typical fast bowler. My body language… — Bhuvneshwar Kumar Copy Share Image