Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez Copy Share Image
If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language,… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made… — Spiros Doikas Copy Share Image
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too… — Ro James Copy Share Image
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A phrase (it often happened when he was exhausted) kept cycling round and round, preconsicously, just under the threshold of lip and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“A strange thing happens when one speaks aloud: words take on their own meaning. They move in through the listener's ears and… — K. Arsenault Rivera Copy Share Image
“If you try to follow the language of thought in your own mind, you will not find even the simplest sentences- only… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“I wonder at my incapacity for easy banter, smooth conversation, empty words to fill awkward moments. I don't have a closet filled… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
“We can judge the inestimable value of concepts, and consequently of the faculty of reason, if we glance at the endless multitude… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or… — Madison Davenport Copy Share Image
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Leaving home early is always complicated. But when I arrived in Germany, I encountered an incredible structure built by the company that… — Roberto Firmino Copy Share Image
Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come… — Najibullah Quraishi Copy Share Image
![“Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the…” quote by Najibullah Quraishi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/najibullah-quraishi-60061_afghanistan_our-afghanistan-main-problem-is-educatio_166123.jpg)
