I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've spoken about my frustration with how the language of efficiency and waste and fraud has become coded in some way as… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that… — Ernest Hogan Copy Share Image
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
