The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...but it seems to me there is something beyond words--any words--all words--something that always escapes you when you try to grasp it--and… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
It's not difficult to balance both Bollywood and South. I would not be able to select between either one and say that… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually… — Clyde Kluckhohn Copy Share Image
“As Umberto Eco might say: for communicating, language is perfect; there could be nothing better. And yet, language doesn’t say everything. The… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
When I went to Spain two years ago, I only knew three Valencia players. I didn't know anything about La Liga, and… — Phil Neville Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
There has been this resurgence in anti-LGBT language in the U.K. and the U.S., and the rest of the world. In the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their… — William Feather Copy Share Image
“I thought of my difficulties with writing, my struggles to articulate feelings not easily expressed. Of my struggles to find a language… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Richie' is so special to me. It's because this was the first Tamil film that I had auditioned for. I did not… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
