Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Music is the universal language; it is the soundtrack to our existence. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now? — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ — Brian H. Hook Copy Share Image
“Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Shockingly tactless,” Lady Warford said. “Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages” — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“The incomplete vocabulary of strategy as an intellectual discipline limits the communication of the central concept of indirectness. This concept, as it… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
A lot of the top managers are great watchers. They can tell by a player's body language whether he's in form or… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure at the end of the day is an old thesaurus. I know that can lead to overwriting, but if… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers,… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and… — Natalie Cole Copy Share Image
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
