Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whenever he was unclear about some idea or emotion, uncertain in his perception of someone or vague about a memory, he sat… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
“Well?" Marsha asked when Charity had left. A single word with a thousand meanings, Josh thought grimly. What was it about women… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All human language could be determined through this medium, which could not be expressed in any human language, and that was its… — Joshua Cohen Copy Share Image
We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“If we could look into the human mind and read its operating system, we would find something like this.” Four words appeared… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls;… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
“Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language… — Erik Estrada Copy Share Image
And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I’m sure you’d hate to miss everyone’s felicitations.” David had beaten me in the final round of our sixth-grade spelling bee with… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
