Language Quote by Plautus Download Open image “Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]” — Plautus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Smooth
“:fondle a plump plastic-wrapped volume, crack it's often-cracked back and spread open the pages. Swallow what's in there, whatever it is. Devour the words.” — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“I set my words carefully upon the page; they have taken time to prove, to ripen and mature. I look and listen to their… — Liz Minister Copy Share Image
“What I really devoured . . . was the truculence of my hosts' language: the syntax may have been brutally sloppy, but it was… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“19. THE WALL OF DICTIONARIES BETWEEN MY MOTHER AND THE WORLD GETS TALLER EVERY YEAR Sometimes pages of the dictionaries come loose and gather… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I understand how a word others use every day can become something whispered in the dark to soothe a wound that just won't heal.… — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Copy Share Image
“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
“Words are my leisure, Words are my life. Words are my gift to thee, Use 'em wisely for light.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you… — Plautus Copy Share Image
“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)” — Plautus Copy Share Image
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.] — Plautus 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
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