From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has the distinction of being the first Indian word borrowed by English settlers), Cape Fear, Cape Hatteras, the Chowan and...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:Be not the first by whom the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world is changed. One letter separates Word from World, and that letter is like...

Studying the world’s oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked...

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant of the ‘language of Shakespeare’… sufficiently to realise the...

Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels–although it drove up the aesthetic rush of going out on the town, it...

Mūsų laisvė pačiais ją įtvirtinančiais veiksmais sukuria tolydžio stiprėjančius įpročius, kurie ją pasmaugia, jeigu jos neatnaujina nuolatinės pastangos: jos tyko automatizmas. Pati gyviausia mintis sustabarėja ją išreiškiančioje formuluotėje. Žodis atsigręžia prieš idėją. Raidė nužudo dvasią....

If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it’s only sound, and that’s not where the meaning...

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up.

No new world without a new language.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

To understand Jesus Christ, you must know the Language of Heaven.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words...

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.

In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it comes under the heading of communication rather than speech. And yet,...

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a...

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn’t need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn’t work. Are is present tense. Dead is — well, dead is past, isn’t it? Present tense...

We have now agreed upon the language and the finer points,

For instance, take the two words “fuming” and “furious.” Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If...

In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then...

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

…language always occurs in a context – you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset…

Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you’re careful, you can learn it.

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial...

In future, brainwave is a media of universal language.

Language is memory and metaphor.

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke–a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart;...

Talk the language of the employer — which is the bottom line.

Language is the dress of thought.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.

That’s one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I’m very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you...

Kas nicina un plicina savu valodu, tas neciena arī sevi.

But doesn’t add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.

Mal nommer un objet, c’est ajouter au malheur de ce monde. Et justement la grande misère humaine qui a longtemps poursuivi [Brice] Parain et qui lui a inspiré des accents si émouvants, c’est le mensonge....

A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.