Giving Quote by Lois Lowry

“...what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?”

— Lois Lowry

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight…

— Frances Mayes

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

— Jim Broadbent

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there…

— E. F. Benson

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole…

— John Muir

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

— Wole Soyinka

“In this way, the labor of learning was very considerably lightened, and everyone came to know a few words of each language. Occasionally we…

— Johann David Wyss

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer…

— Alasdair Gray

“His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a “y” to an “e” in…

— China Miéville

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction…

— Maturin Murray Ballou

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

— William Gibson

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different…

— Bono