The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It's funny - I was a big fan of 'The Sopranos.' It became kind of a threat to 'The X-Files' in a… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn’t it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?' Uh... you know. Pretty good.' Have you said the L-Word yet?' The L-Word? You mean?… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
“I love bright words, words up and singing early; Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing; Warm lazy words, white… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
It was once argued that 'Starring Sylvester Stallone' were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Franco-Albertans have created a valuable legacy throughout the province. Our Government is pleased to support these projects, which showcase the thriving Francophone… — Shelly Glover Copy Share Image
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown.… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard… — Filippo Brunelleschi Copy Share Image
The language of digital communication is a language we don't understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Winds move but why must I... in this progression, is there really progress, to lay my words in slamming pronunciations to splatter… — Teresa Fleischer Copy Share Image
“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
