Language Quote by Alex Kapranos Download Open image “Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.” — Alex Kapranos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Venom Wacky
I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world. — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'. — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.” — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Harpier cries ’Tis time, ’tis time. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter’d venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Fillet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy with the… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps,… — Thomas Urquhart Copy Share
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
