He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I've burned words and buried them, I thought, but I haven't tried the water yet.” — Allie Condie Copy Share Image
“So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade” — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it. — Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimistcom Copy Share Image
We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I wish I could find words--serious, beautiful words--to describe it in the afternoon sunlight; the more I strive for them, the more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
“Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
“To understand the difference between a good adverb and a bad adverb, consider these two sentences: “She smiled happily” and “She smiled… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“We might more of us say these words to others, and more frequently--how healing that would prove to be. "Look, we've had… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
