When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
When you're on the court with guys that know basketball, it's a universal language for us. — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here. — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience. — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“He has his world and I have mine and we each speak our own kinds of English in them. But we also… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence,… — Fay Abernethy Copy Share Image
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
I'd like to move to some country with a language that I dont understand, and live there for the rest of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“The Word Wonder or dream from distant land I carried to my country's strand And waited till the twilit norn Had found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“The thing she realised in that moment, that fraction of waiting, was lost. Nothing could bring the thing back, no words could… — H.D Copy Share Image
