The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them.” — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.” — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.” — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that… — Steve Hackett Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I think, in terms of looking at the trajectory and being around some of the same people, it's certainly flattering words, but… — Sean McVay Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“how powerful words could be. They could heal a broken heart. Give hope to the hopeless. Give inspiration to the dispirited. Give… — Melanie Shawn Copy Share Image
Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
