Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Language Quotes
CollaborationCreativityLanguagePracticality Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
CommunicationIntuitionLanguagePerceptionUnderstanding 'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
CommunicationEffectLanguageMeaningPerception Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
CommunicationLanguagePrecisionWord Choice Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
ClarityCommunicationExpressionLanguagePrecision All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
CommunicationLanguageLexicographyLiteratureLove for Words I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.
DefinitionLanguageRelativity 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
Language Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
CommunicationInformationLanguageMediaSociety As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
CommunicationExpressionLanguagePerceptionUnity When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or the actors. When I work in English or French, the music of the language is different, but beyond that music, in the depths, it's the same.
BasicsCreativityLanguageLiteraturePoetry The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
CharacterCommunicationLanguage A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Cultural CohesionIntegrationLanguageNational Identity Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
CommunicationExpressionLanguagePerceptionTruth It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
ApprovalGovernanceIdealsIdentityLanguage It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
LanguagePhilosophyProgressThinking I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
CommunicationCreativityLanguageLoveSymbolism The number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?
CommunicationIsolationLanguagePerceptionReality Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Cultural DiversityIdentityIndividualityLanguageRegional Pride You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
ArtCreativityExpressionLanguageProcess Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.