The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way. — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
“There are over 10,000 idioms in American English, and some of them have been in use for more than 2,000 years, while… — Gail Brenner Copy Share Image
No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator. — Nuno Espirito Santo Copy Share Image
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“When just one single word comes in action then it is called ‘Knowledge’ (Gnan) and even after reading all the scriptures but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“Means and Ends The purpose of a fish trap Is to catch fish, And when the fish are caught The trap is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul… — Debra Paget Copy Share Image
