The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“A word that passes through thirty-two teeth will soon pass through thirty-two cities,” — Zohreh Ghahremani Copy Share Image
And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words. — Homer Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. — Buddy Holly Copy Share Image
“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, the most inexhaustible source of magic.” — Albus Dumbledore Copy Share Image
Words mean nothing, and can be said by anyone. Actions mean everything, and are what you can truly use to see how… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten… — Anuj Copy Share Image
“I love the juxtaposition of these words. I love the incongruity, the oddity, the very strangeness of their nearness. Dizzy Gillespie. Pakistan.… — Maliha Masood Copy Share Image
I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be… — Paul O'Neill Copy Share Image
The power to express love or hate. The power to give or take. The power to heal or harm. Choose your words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest.… — Glenn Dixon Copy Share Image
“She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A whole spectrum of possible relationships comes to light, beginning at one pole with the pious and inert quotation that is isolated… — Mikhail Bakthin Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
