“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart” — Nikita Tak Copy Share Image
“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [ First intelligible words spoken over the telephone ]” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Love. It's a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, and impossible to live without. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
There's a certain charm, when the words Go fuck yourself roll off your tongue. Try it. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back.… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in… — Daniel Harms Copy Share Image
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“PUPIL: Are the roots of words square? PROFESSOR: Square or cube. That depends. PUPIL: I've got a toothache.” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language… — Amy-Jill Levine Copy Share Image
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“We always think of language as an immovable object, as this set of codified and unbreakable rules. But when you consider that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American;… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image