An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.” — Bernard Bloch and George L Trager Copy Share Image
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption. — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities:… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“No, I have as yet said nothing, or, rather, said only bookish words... and in the end the logical thing would be… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or… — Alexander Dreymon Copy Share Image
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The language of distinction ceases to be available; is no longer available. We must search CD Rom for meanings which once were… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
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