If you appreciate someone today, tell them. If you adore someone today, show them. Hearts are often confused and broken by thoughtful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“This is why we said 'ain't' and 'he don't'. We wanted words to fit our cold linoleum, our oil lamps, our outhouse.… — Vern Rustsala Copy Share Image
Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don't necessarily… — Andy Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking? Hour after hour after hour of no words. Would… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the nation, where the first words of the Declaration of Independence were drafted, where our Constitution was… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review.… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
“I love bright words, words up and singing early; Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing; Warm lazy words, white… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The last Company Flow reunion show in New York City was pretty insane. Everybody knew all the words to every song; everybody… — El-P Copy Share Image
All you have to do is respect me. Use the right words. If you don't consider me a woman, then use trans… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard… — Filippo Brunelleschi Copy Share Image
“He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation ...… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For example. But I cannot give you an example. It was not so much any one example, any one event, which I… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, on the edge of a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Words, language and representation of meaning are an important aspect of reflective practice. Slips of the tongue, dream interpretations and the whole… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When it came to eliciting a reaction from an audience, especially at the time, I think Ric Flair is the guy who… — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“The Book Lover:- See how I have come up in the World, because of my books. I pull the covers agape, pages… — Catriona Malan Copy Share Image
My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
